[GNC] no printer to select in print dialog

Chris Roy-Smith chris_roysmith at internode.on.net
Sun Mar 10 04:26:16 EDT 2019


On 10/3/19 7:17 pm, Colin Law wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 at 08:07, Chris Roy-Smith
> <chris_roysmith at internode.on.net> wrote:
>> Hi David,
>> thanks for the explanation. I have set-up the ppa, and all works fine now.
> Which ppa is that? I didn't know there is a gnucash ppa.
>
> Colin
>
here is the one I used, it gives version 3.4

ppa:sicklylife/gnucash

Regards,

Chris


>>
>>
>> On 10/3/19 6:10 pm, David Cousens wrote:
>>> Chris,
>>>
>>> You possibly have installed the flatpak version of GnuCash in which case it
>>> is possibly settings in the flathub support which restrict GnuCash from
>>> accessing the printer. Flatpak is a sandbox which isolates the application
>>> from the OS. One of the developers has been working on getting a flatpak
>>> version downloadable from the GnuCash website but I don't know what the
>>> status is.
>>>
>>> This reference from an earlier thread
>>> http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions-reference.html
>>>
>>> may be of some assistance.
>>>
>>> The original thread dealt with access to mysql
>>> http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GNC-Gnucash-Flatpak-3-2-Mysql-issue-tt4703430.html.
>>> There may be some info in some of the other posts in the thread.
>>>
>>> I installed the flatpack GnuCash when I first moved to LM19, had problems
>>> and quicklywent back to building my own from sources.  There is also a
>>> repository which has a build of  the latest release of GnuCash (3.4) at
>>> https://launchpad.net/~sicklylife/+archive/ubuntu/gnucash. It is not
>>> officially part of the GnuCash team but works. After installing the ppa with
>>> the instructions shown there just use
>>> sudo apt install gnucash
>>> in a terminal.
>>>
>>> David Cousens
>>>
>>>
>>>
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