[GNC] Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya and Gnucash 3.2

[Plutocrat]

The state of Gnucash in Ubuntu is not a happy one. Its packages are inherited from Debian, and for whatever reason, they've been lagging behind. I've tried to suggest upgrading a couple of times but to no avail, although one person did suggest that if I couched it as a Bug (i.e. version 3.2 fixes a lot of bugs) then I'd stand a better chance. 

There is a version 3.2 coming through in Debian unstable. Seems like it might make it into 18.10, but that wouldn't get it into 18.04 or Mint 18.2. Getdeb used to be an option, but it died with no explanation last September. There was also an Ubuntu PPA which died. I offered my services to try compiling 3.2 but received no response. 

It seems like perhaps your best option is one recently suggested on this list, which is to uninstall your current version and install the flatpack version, (a sort of app container, which includes all the dependencies). I installed this on a spare laptop, and it seemed to work and opened my 2.6 file without issue, but I haven't really kicked the tyres on it. 
	https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnucash.GnuCash

I think Linux Mint includes flatpack by default, so it may just be as simple as
	flatpak install flathub org.gnucash.GnuCash
	flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash

Of course, backup your accounts files, config etc first, so you can go back to 2.6 should you need to. 

P.
	

gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote on Saturday, 28 July, 2018 03:05 PM:
> Subject:
> [GNC] Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya and Gnucash 3.2
> From:
> "Shabuboy.joy" <shabuboy at hotmail.com>
> Date:
> Sat, 28 Jul 2018 01:11:08 -0500 (CDT)
> I just migrated from Quicken to Gnucash. Loving it so far!
> 
> The question i have is: Will Gnucash 3.2 be available for Linux Mint 18.2?
> The software manager installed 2.6.12
> i did the apt update and upgrade and still same version is listed.
> 
> i also tried the getweb but got the same version, at least it told me the
> same version was installed already.
> 
> I see the new version can be built from the source, but I am far from being
> a Linux expert and never done that before.