[GNC] no printer to select in print dialog

[Chris Roy-Smith]

On 10/3/19 7:45 pm, Colin Law wrote:
> Thanks Chris.  That could indeed be useful.  One should always
> remember, though, that with a ppa one is reliant on the integrity of
> the packager to build what you are expecting.  There is nothing to
> stop someone modifying the code for nefarious purposes and building it
> into a ppa.  Looking at the packagers profile, however, there does not
> seem to be anything that would lead one to worry about his/her
> integrity.
>
> Colin

I also tried running GnuCash using this command

flatpak run --device=all org.gnucash.GnuCash

But I still don't get any printers!

perhaps I misunderstood the notes at

http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/search.html?q=device&check_keywords=yes&area=default

regards, Chris

>
> On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 at 08:30, Chris Roy-Smith
> <chris_roysmith at internode.on.net> wrote:
>> 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 ppa I used
>>
>> 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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