Jeffrey, I tend to keep the stable release installed under /usr/local. If I have any unstable or work in progress versions I install them under /opt or under my home directory as John suggests in another reply. I usually set up aliases tagged with a version number or some other identifier pointing to the executables for each version (http://www.hostingadvice.com/how-to/set-command-aliases-linuxubuntudebian/).
You don' really need to set up a VM for running different versions of GnuCash. That is more useful if you need to run or develop under different operating systems or variants (Linux, Mac , Windows, Gentto Fedora etc) for testing or if you are working on the development of different versions of the program where you may need to have different versions of libraries installed for each program version. David ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-Dev-f1435356.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
