On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 15:48, Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 03:30:02PM +0000, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > I should have added, the particular distribution of Ubuntu I am using is > > 20.04 LTS, which installs GnuCash 3.8, which was released almost 2 years > > ago. > > > Which makes absolute sense of course because Ubuntu 20.04 LTS was > released in April 2020 which is getting on for two years ago now. > Plus the LTS editions of Ubuntu are aimed at being solid, tested and > stable so they tend to be conservative in their choices of software > versions. > > Once a version has been chosen for a particular release of Ubuntu that > version remains unchanged for the life of the Ubuntu release. > Security and bug fixes will be done but that's all. > > If you want latest (or at least later) versions of software you need > to either upgrade the Ubuntu version you're using, and keep upgrading > with the 6 monthly regular release or (not my preference) install an > appimage or a flatpack (you can get GnuCash Flatpacks from the web > site). > > By the way it's fairly easy and reliable (in my experience anyway) to > upgrade Ubuntu versions if you use their offered way of doing it. I > have gone through many versions now doing 6 monthly upgrades dating > back to somewhere like 11.04 or even earlier. I did do one clean > install but that was because I did some rather major hardware upgrades > at the same time. > > -- > Chris Green > _______________________________________________ > 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.
