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 <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14 March 2018 at 20:05, David Carlson <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> >> 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 < >> >>> [email protected]> 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 >> >> [email protected] >> >> 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 >> > [email protected] >> > 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 >> [email protected] >> 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 [email protected] 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.
