On 14 March 2018 at 20:05, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps Mike has not seen the Source Forge webpage before. Just start from > the <https://www.gnucash.org/> website. Then select Download GnuCash. > Select the version for your operating system. If it is Windows you get > taken to the Source Forge download page. That shows a fancy list of > folders with icons on the right that suggest popularity. About half way > down is the gnucash (stable) folder with a large number of downloads on the > right. Click that or just click the large green button near the top of the > page. Then make sure that you remember where you tell it to place the > file. > The confusion arises, I suspect, from the fact that the obvious thing to do is click the large green button which says Download Latest Version, which downloads the source tarball not the installer. I imagine that for 99% of visitors that is not what they want. Colin > > David C > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 2:41 PM, Mike Schliebe <mschli...@verizon.net> > wrote: > > > I downloaded it from Filehippo.com. I can't see how to download from > > SourceForge.net. That site is terribly confusing. I looked at > download.com > > from Cnet but they showed an older version of the program. I don't know > > what the sha256 is but here is a copy of the info in the "About" section > of > > the help menu: > > > > > > > > On 3/13/2018 4:00 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> > >> On Mar 13, 2018, at 1:45 PM, Adrien Monteleone < > >>> adrien.montele...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> Mike, > >>> > >>> Be careful. It is generally not safe to download software from > >>> unofficial sources. > >>> > >>> SourceForge.net is the official source as Dave noted. > >>> > >>> What other site did you download it from? > >>> > >> We also put official binaries on the releases page of our Github repo. > >> > >> That said, confirming that the sha256 of what you downloaded matches the > >> the one published in the release announcement regardless of where you > >> downloaded it from should be being careful enough. > >> > >> Regards, > >> John Ralls > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> gnucash-user mailing list > >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org > >> 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 > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > 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 > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > 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 gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.