[GNC] *.deb package for GnuCash 3.4 Released

[nvsoar]

On 01/02/19 13:44, Colin Law wrote:
> I have installed 3.4 onto another Ubuntu 18.10 and can confirm Tim
> Kallmer's findings as to the additional packages that need to be
> installed.  I have noticed one other slight complication, that Ubuntu
> seems to think that the version from the deb (3.4-0-1) is earlier than
> the version from the repo (1:3.3-2), possibly due to the 1: on the
> front.  The result is that updating the system wants to update gnucash
> back to 3.3.  The solution to that is to mark it as held so that it
> won't be upgraded.
>
> So to install on Ubuntu 18.10 from the deb first download it from
> Stephen's Drive
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=172BMIvLgD7twcGEWkR5GcddoZ_A4QWfY to,
> for example Downloads, then run
>
> sudo apt remove gnucash
> sudo apt autoremove
> sudo dpkg -i Downloads/gnucash_3.4-0-1_amd64.deb
> sudo apt install  libboost-filesystem1.65.1  libboost-date-time1.65.1
>    libboost-locale1.65.1  libboost-regex1.65.1
> sudo apt-mark hold gnucash
>
> and you should be good to go.  Thanks again to Stephen Butler for
> providing this.
>
> Colin

Do you think that 'sudo apt -f install' would work to get the libboost 
packages?
nvsoar