Thanks for clarifying, Geert. From the earlier discussion I had the impression that we were supposed to do a manual uninstall every time before installing a new version, so I'm glad to learn that's not true.
-- Regards, Stan Brown Tompkins County, New York, USA http://BrownMath.com http://OakRoadSystems.com On 2018-07-02 05:29, Geert Janssens wrote: > Op zondag 1 juli 2018 14:02:06 CEST schreef Stan Brown: >> Surely the installer of the new version can uninstall the old >> version itself -- and in my opinion, it should. > > That's the general principle and that's also what the gnucash installer will > do. > > There are a few caveats though:[snip] > > An update usually works though. If not an explicit uninstall followed by a > manual removal of left over files helps to eliminate this class of errors. _______________________________________________ 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.
