On 5/20/25 1:59 PM, John Ralls wrote:
An alternative for those using older Ubuntu releases
5.11 is as up to date as it gets, that’s the current release.
I noted "older Ubuntu releases" for those such as me on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. I usually upgrade every other LTS, so I skipped 24.04 and will update my OS sometime after 26.04LTS is released next April. If I want to run 5.11 on my system I would need to either use a flatpack or compile 5.11 myself. Either is relatively simple for me, as I have experimented on virtual systems. But for Ubuntu 22.04, the most recent GC release via standard Ubuntu/Canonical repo is 4.8. I started thinking about PPAs when a couple reported YahooJSON issues that were recently fixed. Both were using older Ubuntu releases (I think 20.04 and 22.04) and a 5.x GC flatpack. Not sure why neither of them didn't just get the latest flatpack at first. Yes, I know Ubuntu uses Debian packages. I build binary packages at work for a couple in-house applications that we deploy using Ansible or SaltStack. But PPAs don't allow one to directly upload binary packages.
I won’t object if someone is willing to step up and be the “official” PPA-maker *provided* that that someone *commits* to doing it reliably for every release until they find somebody to replace them.
I assuumed that at least part of the reason for not using PPA was workload. And from my playing around, building a flatpack (not installing) is easier than preparing and building a PPA source package. But then I've just started playing with creating my own.
Thanks for the info. Bruce S. _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
