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.
