[GNC] Upgrade Question

John Donnee jjdonnee at gmail.com
Fri Oct 26 16:13:02 EDT 2018


Thanks for the answers. So I might as well stay on my current version until
there is a 3.3 rev with the bug fixes in a final 3.3.

Thanks John

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 12:30 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> On Oct 26, 2018, at 8:11 AM, John Donnee <jjdonnee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi I have a question
>
>
> 1. I just upgraded to Mac 10.14 Mohave and when I launched GNUCASH, I got
> a Mac message that this version will no longer work. I am running 2.6.18
>
> b. How do I upgrade to a version that will work with Mohave?
>
> Thanks, love the product!!
>
>
> The same way you installed 2.6.18: Download it from SourceForge or Github
> (There’s a handy link to the former on https://www.gnucash.org), open the
> dmg and drag Gnucash to the Applications folder or wherever else you want
> to park it.
>
> However, the warning you got doesn’t say that it won’t run on Mojave, it
> says that it won’t run on the *next* version of MacOS. What it doesn’t say
> is that that’s because it’s a 32-bit app and Apple is removing support for
> 32-bit binaries in MacOS 10.15. GnuCash 3.0 and later are built as 64-bit
> on MacOS.
>
> Another note: There are a couple of Gtk bugs in GnuCash 3.3, see
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796879 and
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796889. You may prefer to try
> the dmg linked on those bug reports as it’s rebuilt with unreleased Gtk
> code that fixes the bugs.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
> --
John J Donnee

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