That is one reason why PCLinuxOS is good: one of the developers uses Gnucash, so the latest is usually available! regards, Doug (User of Gnucash for ~26 years, & PCLinuxOS for ~20 years: Thank you to all the developers)
On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 09:18:18 -0700 Mike Brady <[email protected]> wrote: > Works fine in Windows or Linux (Mint in my case) using the same file. In > fact, I access the file freely using both operating systems, so if > you're moving to Linux just copy the files (probably, the whole data > directory) from Windows to Linux and proceed. > > The main caution is that the Mint repository version of GnuCash may be > old; the Windows version always seems to be the latest. A few point > versions difference usually doesn't make any difference, but there's > always a chance for incompatibilities (they've happened to me in the > past), and there are occasions when there are significant bug fixes. You > need to look for how to get the latest version on Linux. I think my copy > is installed with Flatpack, but it might also be done using a different > repo than the standard Ubuntu one Mint uses. You should not need to do a > full compile-from-source with Mint (Ubuntu). > > On 4/28/2025 9:00 AM, [email protected] (Fran_3) wrote: > > Subject: [GNC] .gnucash files - Issues Moving to Linux from Windows ? > > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > > > I'm moving to go from Windows to Linux Mint... if gnuCash will open my > > ".gnucash" file. > > The Questions: > > 1 - Will the "mystuff.gnucash" file open and work without issues after I > > move from Windows to Linux Mint? > > 2 - Or can I expect some issues? > > thanks for any help. > > > > PS- I already have Linux Mint working on another computer so installing > > gnuCash is my next step...- then copying our ".gnucash" accounting file > > over to the Linux Mint computer will be our next step...- unless there are > > issues with continuing the original .gnucash file with all our accounting > > history it it. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
