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

[km22]

P.S. I believe this is the bug in 3.4:
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797046

It is too bad there isn't a way for Debian's stable release to get bug
fixes so that the stable version in the repo remains the most reliable
version.  Seems the current model means that users are stuck with
whichever version is baked into the stable repo - warts and all.


On 2/3/2020 11:29 pm, km22 wrote:
> 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.