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

[Geert Janssens]

Op maandag 21 oktober 2019 04:11:50 CEST schreef Tommy Trussell:
> I did not try it much due to the memory limitations. However on that system
> I have a "shared" directory symlinked out of the user's home directory to
> another user directory where GnuCash and all other work-related files were
> intended to be accessible to any of several users logging into the same
> machine having "shared" group permissions. I set it up maybe ten years ago,
> and in practice it hasn't been as useful, convenient or robust as I
> imagined. But in the case of the GnuCash flatpak I tried, the symlinked
> directories were not visible at all, and I didn't start tinkering with
> permissions to see if I could make them work.
> 

Ok, just for future reference I believe with
flatpak override --filesystem=/path/to/your/shared/dir org.gnucash.GnuCash
you would probably have been able to make it work.

Regards,

Geert