Software update request to gnuCash

[Tommy Trussell]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 8:00 AM, dave boland <dboland9 at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>>
>> Is he running GnuCash from Windows??? By gawd, that would be telling. He
>> gets the latest. :( Ric
>>
>
> Ric,
>
> Yes, my accountant uses Windows 7.  I use Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.  In looking
> at the gnuCash web site, the current stable is 2.4.5, which is why it is
> being used by an accountant.  From my point of view, the current
> repository version is ok functionally.  It is just one of those things
> where we want to stay up with the teacher (accountant).
>
> <comment>
> This is one of the real gripes about Linux over Windows -- we seem to be.
> the last to get the current versions of software in our repositories.  I
> get why Adobe does that, but open source projects too??  Oh well.
> </comment>

See this for the latest info: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Ubuntu

The reasons are complicated but basically the outdatedness in Ubuntu
is because GnuCash is in the Universe repository, meaning it isn't
maintained officially by anyone at Canonical. The things in the
Universe repository come to Ubuntu via Debian, and in the case of
GnuCash, the path from GnuCash to Debian is delayed, probably due to a
lack of GnuCash volunteers with Debian credentials. SO GnuCash will
almost always be somewhat outdated in the Ubuntu repositories.

If you want to have the latest version of GnuCash as soon as it's
released, it isn't hard to compile on your own system, but most folks
will decide there are some small advantages to waiting for it to be in
a repository.

GetDeb.net is a volunteer-run repository which often has had much more
recent versions, AND is very easy to use -- follow the instructions at
GetDeb.net to automatically install it as a repository.