[GNC] Upgrading from old repo to new stable (4.06)

[Jean D. Boyle]

>  Hello fellow users of GNUCash,
>
> As the new edition of GNUCash is fresh from to press, I would like try 
> it too. In the repo of Mint 20.1c, there is (still) 3.08, but on the 
> official Mint Forum, the PPA of Sicklylife is shared to upgrade to 
> 3.11/4.02.
> Mint Forum: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=341880
> PPA from Sicklylife: 
> https://launchpad.net/~sicklylife/+archive/ubuntu/gnucash
>
> In order to try 4.06 too, this non-techie wonders: Besides building 
> from source, is there another/easier way to update GNUCash from 4.02 
> to 4.06? The building instructions for GNUCash is (or should/dare I 
> say are) not very clear-cut for this nontechie. Like, 1) when trying 
> to install the dependencies, the terminal says that I have some broken 
> packages; 2) searching for "Install with Cmake" does result in 
> instructions on how to install CMake, not how to install /with/ CMake, 
> and 3) some guidelines on youtube for installing something from git, 
> are not representative for GNUCas; for this nontechie at least.
>
> Thus, how can this nontechie upgrade to GNUCash 4.06?
>
> 86ul