On 02/08/2018 12:25 PM, Donald F. Emery wrote: > I am new to debian and was hoping someone could tell me why > GNUCASH was not in debian testing. >
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=790204 The bug report explains the current status of gnucash in testing. I installed gnucash from unstable by adding this line deb http://deb.debian.org/debian sid main (temporarily) to /etc/apt/sources.list, then running # apt update then # apt install gnucash* Following that I commented out the testing line in /etc/apt/sources.list and ran # apt update again to get the apt package database back to its normal contents for testing. Normally when using unstable like this I would alter the apt configuration to give preference to the version in unstable and / or pin the version of the package I want, but since there is no version of gnucash and gnucash-docs available in testing, I just got lazy and did nothing about that. Currently these instructions should get you version 1:2.6.18-1 of gnucash. It's working well for me. I hope one of the sharper-eyed and less lazy of the list members will give you better instructions if warranted. As I understand it, the version in experimental is not yet a good choice for someone who needs a properly functioning installation of the package. HTH, JP
