Check out the GnuCash Wiki concerning using the Debian Archive:
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Ubuntu#GnuCash_.40_Debian_Archive
It is linked there, but you can look at the list of available .deb
packages here:
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnucash/
Theoretically, you could download and then use Gdebi or dpkg to install
from there, but as noted, you might run into dependency problems on
16.04. But as you can see looking at that list, several newer versions
that 2.6.12 though sadly 2.6.19/21 are not among them. (this is an
archive of the versions built for each Ubuntu release, 4.10 didn't make
it in time for 22.04, so this is the only way one can get it short of
building or flatpak)
You should only need the gnucash-common and gnucash packages. For
gnucash-common use the 'all' deb for the version you want, and for
gnucash, use the matching version i386 with the most recent date. (thus
if you want version 3.10, you need v3.10 for both files)
As for choosing a version, here's the tough part:
The wiki notes that 2.6.15 (available in the archive) will work on 16.04
& 16.10, but as you note from the error, that isn't recent enough.
The wiki also notes that 3.0 will work on 18.04, and 3.2 (allegedly the
last update on that wiki page) is untested on older versions of Ubuntu.
Unfortunately, the archive jumps from 2.6.15 to 3.4, then 3.10, 4.4, &
4.10, so you're in uncharted territory unless someone else has done this
already and can chime in.
If you can do-release-upgrade to 18.04, that will help you considerably.
(likely at least get into the 3.x series) and if you can then get to
20.04 or better, you should be gravy for 4.x.
Regards,
Adrien
On 5/8/22 11:19 PM, Jonathan Francoeur wrote:
Hi David. Thank you for asking. I am using Linux Lite, Ubuntu 16.04
and GNU Cash 2.6.12 on the older machine. As far as I know, I can not
install any newer version of Ubuntu on this 32bit machine.
Hi Adrien. I'm kinda scared of attempting to build a newer version of
GNU Cash without knowing that someone else has done so successfully. I'm
not that good with computers and the list of dependencies looks daunting
to me. Thank you for your suggestions none the less.
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