[GNC] GnuCash -- Flatpak -- Update assistance needed

[Tommy Trussell]

I forgot to copy the list :-(

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 10:07 PM Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 8:30 PM randix <butterandsalt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ok, not sure what I did, but it appears I have the program back to the
>> state
>> where it was, working, so that's a relief.  It's still version 3.2,
>> however.
>>
>> Does flatpak in fact have a later version available than 3.2, and if so,
>> how
>> do I upgrade to it, as my prior attempt, clearly made no difference.
>>
>
> My understanding is the GnuCash development system code.gnucash.org
> automatically generates daily "unstable" test releases of the flatpak, but
> the Internet connection to that machine is sub-par so the developers are
> not advertising it. AND you probably don't want to use the daily releases
> because they will break, could corrupt your data, etc. etc. They're mainly
> provided for folks testing "just fixed today" problems, and as you may
> know, one fix often breaks something else.
>
> There are probably newer stable "point release" flatpak versions 3.3, 3.4,
> 3.5, etc. that got generated, but somehow they never made it to a public
> place so the flatpak repository hasn't picked them up. SO for the moment
> you'll be stuck with 3.2 (unless you build it yourself).
>
> The snap version of GnuCash is in a similar outdated situation.
>
>
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