[GNC] Backports in Ubuntu? was: Ubuntu binary fairly dated

[Mike Brady]

Thanks. I might look at the Debian repos. But afaik, and as discussed by
others in the thread, it appears that for Ubuntu the app versions are
frozen to the main kernel versions. So unless some other method is used,
we're stuck at 3.8 for Gnucash (for instance) until Mint upgrades or we
can otherwise force a more current kernel version. With Mint, upgrades
seem to happen every 2-3 years, so it's a long time to wait for app updates.

The other apps I mentioned (LibreOffice, Firefox, and Thunderbird) seem
to have a way other than Flatpack to bypass the Ubuntu limitation. I
don't really know how. Otherwise, we have to build from source to get a
newer version; not the most user-friendly method, especially after using
Windows for many years.

-MIke

On 12/3/2021 3:13 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Am 03.12.21 um 22:19 schrieb Mike Brady:
>> Have been following this thread because I use Linux Mint, which is based
>> on the LTS version of Ubuntu. Yes, the GnuCash version in the Ubuntu LTS
>> repository is way out of date (3.8).
> :
>
> AFAIK the Ubuntu family is a branch of the Debian family. And Debian has
> usually recent GnuCash versions in their Backports repos.
> Q1: Offers Ubuntu no backports repos?
> If the answer is No, Why?
> Perhhaps worth to discuss with the Ubuntu user base?
>
> Regards
> Frank