[GNC] Ubuntu distribution version

[David Carlson]

Check out this page and references therein for most details:
https://gnucash.org/new_features-4.0.phtml
There are probably a few minor differences overlooked.

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 9:59 AM Derek Zehr <dehrtobe at daystar.io> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> That makes sense, David and John. Thanks. According to this list Ubuntu 20
> supports Gnucash 3.8
>
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/allpackages?format=txt.gz
>
> Are there any major advantages and improvements to versions 3 and 4?
>
> Derek
>
> On Monday, August 24, 2020 06:12 EDT, "David Cousens" <
> davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:
>  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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