"The main time you may strike problems is in the initial switch between major versions e.g. from 2.6 to V3." Any problems updating from v 2.6.18? Thanks, Roger
Message: 5 Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2019 05:56:25 -0500 (CDT) From: David Cousens <davidcous...@bigpond.com <mailto:davidcous...@bigpond.com> > To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org> Subject: Re: [GNC] v3.5 Message-ID: <1554634585891-0.p...@n4.nabble.com <mailto:1554634585891-0.p...@n4.nabble.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Graham, Upgrading GnuCash is generally pretty painless and as you point out is no more complex than initial installation in most cases. As Colin said you should always have backups (I have 4 separate backups2 of which are off site to my computers). The main time you may strike problems is in the initial switch between major versions e.g. from 2.6 to V3. If you aren't a confident user then it is better to wait for a couple of bugfix releases as quite often there are major changes in the major release updates and an increased likelihood of bugs. With V3 by 3.5 you are pretty safe. Any changes in internal data file format or preferences are usually handled either in installation scripts or built in code to manage the change. Waiting too long may result in having to do the upgrade in steps using intermediate releases. E.g if you were still back on an early V2 version. On Windows, the installer will usually take care of uninstalling any previous version. Similarly most Linux distros often include an uninstall option in their main menu items. The wiki has full uninstallation instructions if you are building from scratch. Haven't had to uninstall a .deb package but dpkg which is used in installation can do it as can apt remove or apt-get remove. With MacOSX i have no experience at all. David Cousens _______________________________________________ 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.
