[GNC] Ubuntu distribution version

[David Cousens]

Derek,

The choices on what versions are supplied wiith a given OS version are made
by the maintainers of the OS distribution. They  usually use  the current
GnuCash version (but not always) at the time of release of a new OS version.
If you want to stay up to date with GnuCash, the main options are to use the
flatpak or snap versions of GnuCash where available or to build the latest
version of GnuCash from the sources as described in the wiki
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_On_Linux. Once build environment and
the dependencies are installed the process is generally fairly simple. Also
check the developer mailing list for any problems with building the most
recent version. MySQL8 proved problematical in building GC 4.0/4.1 recently
on Linux Mint 20 (ubuntu 20.04 based) which was fixed by downgrading a
mysqlclient library that GnuCash depends on as described in the dev mailing
list.

David Cousens.



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