At Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:31:35 +0100 fred.b...@dial.pipex.com wrote: > > On 15 April 2020 at 9:02, Derek Atkins said: > > > Hi Andrew, > > > > First, please remember to CC gnucash-user on your replies so that others > > may benefit from the conversation and chime in. You can do this by using > > the Reply-To-List or Reply-All functionality in your mailer. > > > > If you could supply us with the URL of the page that points to WinXP, > > there is a chance that we might be able to fix it. BUt of course it > > depends if it is on a page that we can control or not. No way for us to > > tell without knowing the specific page ;) > > The "XP/Vista" text in the "Download Gnucash 3.10" box at the top of the > main gnucash.org page links to > https://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.6.21.setup > .exe > which does not go directlly where you expect, but to > https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/ > from which clicking on the top ("gnucash (stable)") link leads you to the > list of available releases. Which, yes, does include 2.6.21 which the > main page tells you is the latest one supported on XP/Vista. So the OP's > complaint that it "just goes to the version for 7, 8 and 10" is > incorrect. > > It might be better to have the link on the main page point to > https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20%28stable%29/2.6. > 21/ > or > https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20%28stable%29/2.6. > 21/gnucash-2.6.21-setup.exe/download > > Incidentally I am still on 2.6.21 (on Win10) and find it entirely > satisfactory. I have tried one or two of the 3.x series but see no > compelling reason to upgrade (if it ain't broke ...)
And I am using 2.4.15 under CentOS 6 and it works just fine. Newer versions are not available in the repository and I am not sure if they will even compile and would likely require chasing down dependencies (and dependencies of dependencies ...) if I were to try to build from source on my CentOS 6 systems. Not presently worth my time to deal with. "if it ain't broke ...". Sometime later this year I play to move to an ARM Linux system running a newer version of some Debian-ish O/S (probably Ubuntu 16.04 or 18.04). At which point I will probably upgrade... > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Cell: 413-658-7953 GV: 978-633-5364 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services hel...@deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services _______________________________________________ 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.
