Î > On Oct 23, 2025, at 19:42, John Ralls <[email protected]> wrote: > > Please remember to copy the list on all replies. > > What apt repo is providing 5.13? Ubuntu’s package search shows only 5.5-1 for > 24.04 for noble main, any section: > https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=gnucash&searchon=names&suite=noble§ion=all > and nothing in noble-backports: > https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=gnucash&searchon=names&suite=noble-backports§ion=all > and noble-updates: > https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=gnucash&searchon=names&suite=noble-updates§ion=all > > If you’ve enabled a third-party or community repository that provides newer > releases that’s fine, but in that case you shouldn’t claim that Ubuntu > automatically updated you. > > The nightly builds are at https://code.gnucash.org/builds/flatpak/stable. See > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak#Nightly_Test_Versions_at_gnucash.org > for installation instructions. > > Regards, > John Ralls > >> On Oct 23, 2025, at 18:29, Keith Myers <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I believe you are mistaken. My Ubuntu release identifies as: >> >> $ lsb_release -a >> No LSB modules are available. >> Distributor ID: Ubuntu >> Description: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS >> Release: 24.04 >> Codename: noble >> >> My distro package manager apt for Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS provides the 5.5 and >> 5.13 Gnucash packages now. Prior to the automatic upgrade of Gnucash, the >> distro was providing Gnucash 5.12 and the 5.5 packages. I was on 5.12 and >> was updated automatically to 5.13 and that was when Gnucash broke and I was >> unable to pay scheduled bills. >> >> $ apt policy gnucash >> gnucash: >> Installed: (none) >> Candidate: 1:5.5-1.2build1 >> Version table: >> 1:5.13-0build1~ubuntu2404 -1 >> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status >> 1:5.5-1.2build1 500 >> 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages >> >> I have installed the flatpak 5.13 version which is broken still for running >> scheduled payments without instant crashing. I discovered that I have to >> intall the 5.13 flatpak version first before downgrading to the 5.12 flatpak >> commits which gets bill payments working again. I see that the 5.12 commit >> installed the 1.66 F:Q module and it runs without breaking now. The prior >> attempt to run one of the 5.12 commits installed the 1.65 F:Q module and >> that was broken for retrieving quotes. >> >> I have looked for the nightly builds you speak of but I have not been able >> to find them. Could you please be more specific to their actual location >> other than https://code.gnucash.org/ >> I don't have the required knowledge to build the source code myself and only >> have been able to install pre-built packages, either Debian or Flatpak. >> >> >> >> >> On Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 05:49:32 PM PDT, John Ralls >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> > On Oct 23, 2025, at 10:56 AM, Keith Myers <[email protected] >> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> > >> > Ever since my Ubuntu 24.04 distro automatically upgraded me from my >> > previously eminently stable version 5.12 to the new version 5.13 I have >> > been unable to pay any of my scheduled bills. The program instantly exits >> > with a crash. >> > I have been advised to install to install the Flatpak version 5.13 but >> > this too has the same exact problem of crashing when you attempt to pay a >> > scheduled bill. >> > I have only been able to downgrade the Flatpak version 5.13 to and older >> > 5.12 commit and that has allowed me to pay my bills. >> > But the unfortunate side effect is that this 5.12 version has broken >> > Finance:Quote version 1.67 so I an now unable to pull any of my security >> > quotes. >> > When will this fiasco with the official stable 5.13 be resolved? >> >> >> Your Ubuntu 24.04 didn’t automatically upgrade you to GnuCash 5.13. Ubuntu >> doesn’t do that with GnuCash, so 24.04 provides only the version of GnuCash >> that was available in April 2024, 5.5: >> https://packages.ubuntu.com/noble/gnucash. >> The latest Ubuntu release, 25.10 “Questing Quokka” has GnuCash 5.13. Perhaps >> that's what you’re actually running. >> >> Next, the 5.12 flatpak didn’t break F::Q 1.67, it doesn’t *have* F::Q 1.67, >> it has 1.65. Flatpak sandboxing means that the flatpak has to contain F::Q >> and all of its dependencies, so it gets what was current when it was built. >> >> That aside, once a release is done, it’s done. We may repackage it—I did so >> for flatpak a couple of days ago because the original Gnome Runtime was >> obsolete—but GnuCash 5.13 is what it is. GnuCash 5.14 will be along in a >> little over 8 weeks. In the meantime you can either go back to 5.12, install >> the latest flatpak nightly build from GnuCash GIT, Wiki, and Email >> List/Archive Server <https://code.gnucash.org/> or build GnuCash stable from >> source. That latest flatpak nightly also has F::Q 1.67. >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> >> GnuCash GIT, Wiki, and Email List/Archive Server >> <https://code.gnucash.org/> >> >> >> <Screenshot from 2025-10-23 18-16-50.png> >
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