Saw another thread about GnuCash version not sorting properly in
Windows. Note that winget in Powershell (Win10/11) and Terminal (Win11)
does retrieve the correct version a week or three after release. It's
been upgrading 5.9 to 5.10 for me in various computers over the past
week. At the PS or Terminal command prompt, a convenient command for
updating all installed items that are discoverable by winget is:
winget upgrade --all --include-unknown
That last option is necessary for it to pick up things that are not in
the Store. The only regularly-used, regularly-maintained software I use
that doesn't get updated by winget are a few open source games like Open
Rails. One downside is that it does effectively a fresh install so in
some cases recent file history and sometimes settings are reset to the
original base; since I haven't customized my GnuCash instances that's
not a problem.
For some reason, in my computers, it only works correctly when run as a
normal user, but fails in an elevated PS/Terminal window; so you have to
be around to respond to the UAC prompt when presented. What *should*
happen of course is that in an elevated window the installs should just
run without further intervention. Oh well...
Official MS info about winget:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/winget/
In essence, it works like the Update Manager in Linux Mint (which I also
use, and which (because it's based on Ubuntu) is usually a laggard at
updating things. It seems to be retrieving the GnuCash installer from
github.
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