[GNC] Upgrade 2.6.18 to 3.5

[rmomxtx at gmail.com]

"The main time you may strike problems is in the initial switch between
major versions e.g. from 2.6 to V3." Any problems updating from v 2.6.18?
Thanks, Roger

 

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Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2019 05:56:25 -0500 (CDT)

From: David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com
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To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org> 

Subject: Re: [GNC] v3.5

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Graham,

 

Upgrading GnuCash is generally pretty painless and as you point  out is no
more complex than initial installation in most cases. As Colin said you
should always have backups (I have 4 separate backups2 of which are  off
site to my computers).

 

The main time you may strike problems is in the initial switch between major
versions e.g. from 2.6 to V3. If you aren't a confident user then it is
better to wait for a couple of bugfix releases as quite often there are
major changes in the major release updates and an increased likelihood of
bugs. With V3 by 3.5 you are pretty safe.  Any changes in internal data file
format or preferences are usually handled either in installation scripts or
built in code to manage the change. Waiting too long may result in having to
do the upgrade in steps using intermediate releases. E.g if you were still
back on an early V2 version.

 

On Windows, the installer will usually take care of uninstalling any
previous version. Similarly most Linux distros often include an uninstall
option in their main menu items. The wiki has full uninstallation
instructions if you are building from scratch. Haven't had to uninstall a
.deb package but dpkg which is used in installation can do it as can apt
remove or apt-get remove.  With MacOSX i have no experience at all.

 

David Cousens