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

[brad]

Later versions of Ubuntu are not too far out of date
21.10: 4.4
21.04: 4.4

A month or so ago I was asking a similar question & someone posted a 
script to build it.  See attached (hopefully). It worked for me except 
the location of the binary was a bit confusing.

On 12/3/21 5:24 PM, Mike Brady wrote:
> 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 repository is way out of date (3.8).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
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