[GNC] Backporting Gnucash 3.7 to Ubuntu "Bionic" (or Mint, etc.)

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Sun Oct 20 15:16:57 EDT 2019


Op zaterdag 19 oktober 2019 22:37:40 CEST schreef Tommy Trussell:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 5:14 PM Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote:
> > Note that you can also use flatpak to get it.
> > 
> > sudo apt install flatpak
> > flatpak install flathub org.gnucash.GnuCash
> 
> Thank you for the reminder!
> 
> The flatpak may work for some folks, and it is certainly easy to install.
> 
> Sadly, the flatpak has some important disadvantages. It requires more RAM
> (memory) to operate, which didn't work well on my older system with limited
> RAM. I also had some issues with flatpak sandboxing -- I keep my GnuCash
> data files stored in a way that were not accessible to the flatpak when I
> tried. (Though I feel sure I can move the data files if I need to.)
> 
I'm curious, what location was not available to flatpak ? It is limited by 
default but you should be able to grant it the proper permissions to access 
most locations.

Geert




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