Building from source *can* be an issue if you are on an LTS OS that is
more than 2 years old. There *can* be dependency hell in some
situations. If that is your case, Flatpak is indeed the best bet.
On the other hand, you might be lucky, and there are no dependency chain
problems, in which case, build away.
Regards,
Adrien
On 3/30/26 1:59 PM, David Cousens wrote:
Mike,
Wrong place to ask. The Linux Mint developers maintain the repositories
of software they guarantee to work with Linux Mint and the GnuCash
developers have no control over what they choose to make available.
They usually only change the version of GnuCash when they release a new
version of Linux Mint and it is usually the most recent version at that
time.
To stay up to date with GnuCash you can either build from sources (not
very difficult once you have the dependencies installed, mainly the
development headers and have the compilers cmake and ninja setup. I
build and install a new version usually in under 10 min) or download
the flatpak version.
Launchpad (https://launchpad.net/~gnucash/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/)
maintains a ppa for Ubuntu systems (Linux Mint is Ubuntu based) which
should have GnuCash 5.15 fairly soon. That page has instructions adding
the ppa to the system. After adding the ppa type
sudo apt install gnucash if you don't have GnuCash already installed
at a terminal prompt and it will update to the latest available
(currently still 5.14).
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