Linux repository fro prebuilt?

[Plutocrat]

DaveC49 wrote on Wednesday, 14 September, 2016 08:31 AM:
> The contents presented in the Linux Mint software Manager are the
> responsibility of the Linux Mint team not the Gnucash developers. It takes
> some time after the release of a new version of Mint to check all the new
> versions of available software out, their dependencies and package them so
> that they install and run without problems. If you need to go to the latest
> version of Gnucash you can get it by compiling it from source. 

Linux Mint, I think defers to the upstream release of Ubuntu for its version of Gnucash. Linux Mint 17 is based on Ubuntu 14 LTS and Mint 18 is based on Ubuntu 16 LTS. 

You could try using the GetDeb repositories if your release isn't current enough. 
	http://www.getdeb.net/software/gnucash

P.