I believe the original version of the script was posted by David Whiting on 2nd October - link to post - https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-October/097864.html
Cheers David H. On Sat, 4 Dec 2021 at 13:14, brad <[email protected]> wrote: > Later versions of Ubuntu are not too far out of date > 21.10: 4.4 > 21.04: 4.4 > > A month or so ago I was asking a similar question & someone posted a > script to build it. See attached (hopefully). It worked for me except > the location of the binary was a bit confusing. > > On 12/3/21 5:24 PM, Mike Brady wrote: > > Thanks. I might look at the Debian repos. But afaik, and as discussed by > > others in the thread, it appears that for Ubuntu the app versions are > > frozen to the main kernel versions. So unless some other method is used, > > we're stuck at 3.8 for Gnucash (for instance) until Mint upgrades or we > > can otherwise force a more current kernel version. With Mint, upgrades > > seem to happen every 2-3 years, so it's a long time to wait for app > updates. > > > > The other apps I mentioned (LibreOffice, Firefox, and Thunderbird) seem > > to have a way other than Flatpack to bypass the Ubuntu limitation. I > > don't really know how. Otherwise, we have to build from source to get a > > newer version; not the most user-friendly method, especially after using > > Windows for many years. > > > > -MIke > > > > On 12/3/2021 3:13 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: > >> Hi Mike, > >> > >> Am 03.12.21 um 22:19 schrieb Mike Brady: > >>> Have been following this thread because I use Linux Mint, which is > based > >>> on the LTS version of Ubuntu. Yes, the GnuCash version in the Ubuntu > LTS > >>> repository is way out of date (3.8). > >> : > >> > >> AFAIK the Ubuntu family is a branch of the Debian family. And Debian has > >> usually recent GnuCash versions in their Backports repos. > >> Q1: Offers Ubuntu no backports repos? > >> If the answer is No, Why? > >> Perhhaps worth to discuss with the Ubuntu user base? > >> > >> Regards > >> Frank > > _______________________________________________ > > 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.
