[GNC] Ubuntu binary fairly dated

[Dr. David Kirkby]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 15:48, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 03:30:02PM +0000, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> > I should have added, the particular distribution of Ubuntu I am using is
> > 20.04 LTS, which installs GnuCash 3.8, which was released almost 2 years
> > ago.
> >
> Which makes absolute sense of course because Ubuntu 20.04 LTS was
> released in April 2020 which is getting on for two years ago now.
> Plus the LTS editions of Ubuntu are aimed at being solid, tested and
> stable so they tend to be conservative in their choices of software
> versions.
>
> Once a version has been chosen for a particular release of Ubuntu that
> version remains unchanged for the life of the Ubuntu release.
> Security and bug fixes will be done but that's all.
>
> If you want latest (or at least later) versions of software you need
> to either upgrade the Ubuntu version you're using, and keep upgrading
> with the 6 monthly regular release or (not my preference) install an
> appimage or a flatpack (you can get GnuCash Flatpacks from the web
> site).
>
> By the way it's fairly easy and reliable (in my experience anyway) to
> upgrade Ubuntu versions if you use their offered way of doing it.  I
> have gone through many versions now doing 6 monthly upgrades dating
> back to somewhere like 11.04 or even earlier.  I did do one clean
> install but that was because I did some rather major hardware upgrades
> at the same time.
>
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> Chris Green
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