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On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:35:19 -0400 (EDT) Robert Heller wrote: > I have JavaScript turned off, so apparently either Windows is the > > default, or it can tell my OS without using JavaScript. > > JavaScript is not needed to tell what your O/S is. It is in the User > Agent

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This is correct. It does not matter which link from GnuCash.org you click, you always get a .dmg if you click the link from Mac, a .bz if you click the link from Linux and an .exe if you click the link from Windows. (I suppose you could spoof the user browser’s agent as proof, but is that

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On 2018-03-14 18:35, Robert Heller wrote: > SourceForge also has a weird way of doing downloads: instead of > providing a direct link to the download, it goes to a page of > "advertisments" and tells you that your download will begin > "shortly". It wants you to fully "interact" with the

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I see the problem now. I was using Google Chrome and when I hit the white XP/Vista/7/8/10 link I got this screen from SourceForge: When I used Internet Explorer I got this screen: Don't know why I get 2 different screens but looks like Google Chrome isn't working too well with SourceForge.

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I am used to the latter methd because it is similar to the way things worked in the old days when users frequently ftp'd files. David C On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 6:03 PM, David Carlson wrote: > As Colin noted, Source Forge does not appear to honor the /last part of >

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As Colin noted, Source Forge does not appear to honor the /last part of the link that is supposed to be pointing to the Windoze setup file if the user is coming from Linux. From Ubuntu it took me to a page that had a link to download the tarball under the green button. However, if I scroll down

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On 14 March 2018 at 22:41, Dave H wrote: > The download link target you click on http://gnucash.org/ also differs > depending on which OS you select to download if you come in that way > That's what I did, I clicked on the Windows link, which took me to sourceforge and

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The download link target you click on http://gnucash.org/ also differs depending on which OS you select to download if you come in that way Cheers DaveH. On 15 March 2018 at 08:35, Robert Heller wrote: > At Wed, 14 Mar 2018 17:51:28 -0400 Stan Brown

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On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 05:51:28PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: > On 2018-03-14 17:32, Colin Law wrote: > > When I go to https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/ the green > > button says on it "Download latest version gnucash-2.6.29-tar.bz2(13.6MB)". > > But I am using LInux. Does it change

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At Wed, 14 Mar 2018 17:51:28 -0400 Stan Brown wrote: > > On 2018-03-14 17:32, Colin Law wrote: > > When I go to https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/ the green > > button says on it "Download latest version gnucash-2.6.29-tar.bz2(13.6MB)". > > But I am

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ou happen to have JavaScript disabled... > > 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 do

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On 14 March 2018 at 21:51, Stan Brown wrote: > On 2018-03-14 17:32, Colin Law wrote: > > When I go to https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/ the green > > button says on it "Download latest version gnucash-2.6.29-tar.bz2(13.6MB) > ". > > But I am using LInux.

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On 2018-03-14 17:32, Colin Law wrote: > When I go to https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/ the green > button says on it "Download latest version gnucash-2.6.29-tar.bz2(13.6MB)". > But I am using LInux. Does it change dependent on which OS one is using? Apparently it does. I see

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member 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, >

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> >> 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 > >> > >> > &

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t 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 >> >> >>> &g

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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 >> >> O

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urce 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 down

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avid 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

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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&quo

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> On Mar 13, 2018, at 1:45 PM, Adrien Monteleone > 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?

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ownload Latest Version >> gnucash-2.6.19-setup.exe (119.5 MB)" >> >> Cheers Dave H. >> >> >> On 13 March 2018 at 07:13, Mike Schliebe <mschli...@verizon.net> wrote: >> >>> When I try to

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Cheers Dave H. > > > On 13 March 2018 at 07:13, Mike Schliebe <mschli...@verizon.net> wrote: > >> When I try to download the program I get taken to the Sound Forge site >> and I don't know how to download the program from there. I'm not on >> twitter, facebook or a

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is 2.6.19) and then click the appropriate installer for your OS. Regards, Adrien > On Mar 12, 2018, at 4:13 PM, Mike Schliebe <mschli...@verizon.net> wrote: > > When I try to download the program I get taken to the Sound Forge site and I > don't know how to download the progr

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be <mschli...@verizon.net> wrote: > When I try to download the program I get taken to the Sound Forge site and > I don't know how to download the program from there. I'm not on twitter, > facebook or any of the other things listed. > ___

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When I try to download the program I get taken to the Sound Forge site and I don't know how to download the program from there. I'm not on twitter, facebook or any of the other things listed. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org