It's all documented in the wiki at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak including how to run it :-)
Cheers David H On Sun, 25 Feb 2024 at 5:29 pm, R Losey <[email protected]> wrote: > As a follow-up to this, I installed flatpack and installed GnuCash (there > was a lot of good how-to stuff)... what was harder to find (not lots > harder, but enough to be annoying) was how to run it from flatpak. I found > it and am running 5.5. > > I then removed the repository GnuCash 4.8 so I won't accidentally run it. > > > On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 1:11 AM R Losey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks for this... I haven't seen any notice about file changes between > > major versions (probably because - as you say - it is silently checked). > > > > Yes, the Ubuntu version is from the repository. I'll have to look up > > installing flatpak to get the 5.x version of GnuCash - I'm not going to > do > > the export/import work. I'd rather just not run it at all on Ubuntu... I > > had been running a flatpak version earlier (that was on the previous LTS > > version, where the repository version was [I think] at 3.x). > > > > > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 11:48 AM Adrien Monteleone < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> There are some changes between major versions. There are checks silently > >> run when you first open your file with a new major version. > >> > >> You can run those checks explicitly via Actions > Check & Repair. > >> > >> The goal is usually to keep compatibility between the last minor release > >> of a major version and the next major version, in case you upgrade, have > >> serious issues, and need to fall back. > >> > >> I wouldn't worry too much about mix-n-match within the same major > >> version (say, all machines on 5.x) but if you have to keep one machine > >> held back, at least get it to the last release of that version. In your > >> case, that would mean getting the Linux box up to 4.14. Since you're > >> using Ubuntu 22.04 and GnuCash 4.8, I'll hazard a guess that was from > >> the Ubuntu repo. You'd need to switch to flatpak to get 4.14 if you > >> don't want to build from source, but in either of those cases, you might > >> as well just bump the Linux box to match your others in the 5.x series. > >> > >> The only alternative I can think of to keep the Linux version at 4.8, > >> would be to export your transactions regularly from one of the other > >> machines and then import them into a separate file used only with 4.8. > >> But that is way more work than even building from source each release, > >> not to mention updating a flatpak. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Adrien > >> > >> On 2/24/24 10:01 AM, R Losey wrote: > >> > So I have wonderful GnuCash installed on WIndows 10, on an M1 iMac, > and > >> on > >> > Linux (Ubuntu 22.04LTS). > >> > > >> > I mostly use the iMac and Windows versions, and I've always kept these > >> two > >> > versions in sync; that is, when I decided to upgrade to 5.1, I install > >> 5.1 > >> > back-to-back on the iMac and Windows computers... mostly this was due > >> to a > >> > fear of corrupting the data files by running different versions. > >> > > >> > But lately, and from education reading this list, I am thinking that > the > >> > data file format doesn't change, and the GnuCash version is more like > a > >> > "shell" around which the data file is operated upon, so maybe it's > okay > >> to > >> > have Linux at 4.8 and Windows at 5.5-1 and iMac at 5.3. > >> > > >> > But I thought I'd run it by this group to see what people think. > >> > > >> > Thanks! > >> > > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> gnucash-user mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > >> ----- > >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > >> > > > > > > -- > > _________________________________ > > Richard Losey > > [email protected] > > Micah 6:8 > > > > > -- > _________________________________ > Richard Losey > [email protected] > Micah 6:8 > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > 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 ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
