[GNC] How to install Gnucash 3.8 on Debian 10 "buster"?

[km22]

Hi Andrea,

Thanks for the message.  Do you know whether there is a simple command
line operation I can run to install Gnucash 3.8 from Debian 10 testing repo?

I tried to google the solution but what I found seemed to suggest a lot
of modifications to the sources file or introducing a pinning concept. 
I only want to install this one package (and the necessary dependencies)
from testing, ideally without messing with the /etc/ files.

Thanks,
Ken



On 2/3/2020 2:08 am, Andrea Borgia wrote:
> Il 01/03/20 16:39, km22 ha scritto:
>
>> I recently moved from Windows 7 (due to end of life) to Debian 10.  I
>> have gnucash 3.4 installed from the standard repo.  However I think this
>> version contains a bug as I cannot see any of the historical FX prices I
>> stored in the Price Database. I think I need to move to a more recent
>> version.  I saw this wiki article: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Debian
>> but no clues there on how to install the latest version 3.8. Can anyone
>> here advise?
>
> Hi, Ken.
>
> If you're comfortable with using the "testing" distribution, then GC
> 3.8 is already included, I am using it now.
>
> If you prefer to continue using the "stable" distribution of Debian,
> then you could try the "flatpak" version of GC, available here:
> https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnucash.GnuCash
>
> How to use Flatpak on Debian:
> https://flatpak.org/setup/Debian/
>
>
> Regards,
> Andrea.