So do I 😁 On 15 Mar. 2018 6:49 am, "David Carlson" <david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote:
> So now I am the one that is confused, I got the windows installer when I > followed that sequence. > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 3:45 PM, David Carlson < > david.carlson....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > The green button may have been broken for a while in the last couple of > > days, but it worked for me when I first selected to download the windows > > version from the gnucash webpage then use the green button to download > the > > setup file a few seconds ago. > > > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 3:31 PM, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> 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. > _______________________________________________ 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. 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