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

[David H]

I believe the original version of the script was posted by David Whiting on
2nd October - link to post -
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-October/097864.html

Cheers David H.

On Sat, 4 Dec 2021 at 13:14, brad <bradhaack at fastmail.com> wrote:

> Later versions of Ubuntu are not too far out of date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 repository is way out of date (3.8).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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