Adrien, I found Release 2.6.17 backported to Ubuntu 16.04 (and 17.04). in the Getdeb repo. That was good enough for me.
David C On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 5:49 PM, Adrien Monteleone < [email protected]> wrote: > I’m setting up an Ubuntu Xenial machine for a family member and I’d like > to put Gnucash on it. The Xenial repos are dated to 2.6.12, a bit too stale. > > I’d like to put 2.6.19 on it, but the instructions on the wiki are for > 2.8(3.0) and I don’t know if these are still valid for the 2.6 series. > > Will that procedure also work for 2.6.19? (and which is better to use > Autotools or CMake?) I won’t be using the build tools for anything else, > save maybe an update to 3.0 when it is released. (or more likely not until > 3.1 or so) I’d like to set him up with an sqlite backend if that makes a > difference. (I see a note on the wiki about Autotools being for the XML > backend) > > Should I use the Trusty instructions instead? > > The last time I built a stable version was Precise, anything I built > recently was the 2.7 branch. > > Or is there a better way to obtain the most up-to-date version for Xenial? > (GetDeb only has 2.6.17 as of today) > > Thanks for any tips and advice. > > Regards, > Adrien > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
