how to download

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Wed Mar 14 18:35:19 EDT 2018


At Wed, 14 Mar 2018 20:31:42 +0000 Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On 14 March 2018 at 20:05, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps Mike has not seen the Source Forge webpage before.  Just start from
> > the <https://www.gnucash.org/> website. Then select Download GnuCash.
> > Select the version for your operating system.  If it is Windows you get
> > taken to the Source Forge download page.  That shows a fancy list of
> > folders with icons on the right that suggest popularity.  About half way
> > down is the gnucash (stable) folder with a large number of downloads on the
> > right.  Click that or just click the large green button near the top of the
> > page.  Then make sure that you remember where you tell it to place the
> > file.
> >
> 
> The confusion arises, I suspect, from the fact that the obvious thing to do
> is click the large green button which says Download Latest Version, which
> downloads the source tarball not the installer.  I imagine that for 99% of
> visitors that is not what they want.

SourceForge also has a weird way of doing downloads:  instead of providing a 
direct link to the download, it goes to a page of "advertisments" and tells 
you that your download will begin "shortly".  It wants you to fully "interact" 
with the advertisments before it will actually start your download (using an 
AJAX / JavaScript thing to actualy do the download).  If you are expecting the 
link to pop up the "Save or Open file" dialog and instead get anothe "page" at 
SourceForge, it can seem that the download didn't/isn't going to happen.  I am 
not sure what happens if you happen to have JavaScript disabled...




> 
> Colin
> 
> 
> >
> > David C
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 2:41 PM, Mike Schliebe <mschliebe at verizon.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I downloaded it from Filehippo.com. I can't see how to download from
> > > SourceForge.net. That site is terribly confusing. I looked at
> > download.com
> > > from Cnet but they showed an older version of the program. I don't know
> > > what the sha256 is but here is a copy of the info in the "About" section
> > of
> > > the help menu:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 3/13/2018 4:00 PM, John Ralls wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> On Mar 13, 2018, at 1:45 PM, Adrien Monteleone <
> > >>> adrien.monteleone at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Mike,
> > >>>
> > >>> Be careful. It is generally not safe to download software from
> > >>> unofficial sources.
> > >>>
> > >>> SourceForge.net is the official source as Dave noted.
> > >>>
> > >>> What other site did you download it from?
> > >>>
> > >> We also put official binaries on the releases page of our Github repo.
> > >>
> > >> That said, confirming that the sha256 of what you downloaded matches the
> > >> the one published in the release announcement regardless of where you
> > >> downloaded it from should be being careful enough.
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >> John Ralls
> > >>
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