[GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 233, Issue 88

[Kalpesh Patel]

Unfortunately, when it comes to using bundled software with various Linux
distros that are out there, they are limited on resources so they normally
consider applications like GNC as fringe thing to their core offering so
that is the last thing that gets traction if any. I am afraid I do not know
any repo that would allow you to install it in such manner in Ubuntu Studio.
If there is anyone that knows of such facility then you are in the best
forum where they will speak up and let you know. 

Installing flatpak version is not that difficult (I used to compile things
ground up on UNIX/Linux systems many many moons ago). I am most likely
outnumbered here in this forum as I am on Windows platform but core of the
folks here use it on some form of Linux distro so there is better bet that
if you run into some sort of issue with flatpak, someone will be able to
help here overcome it. There were few important bugs, IMHO at least, that
were fixed by the team in 4.11 that were observed in 4.8 GNC that are
applicable to brokerage related transactions. 

If you are a bit brave, you may want to attempt to install Wine
(https://wine.htmlvalidator.com/install-wine-on-ubuntustudio-20.04.html)
which can be done via repos and then install Windows version of GNC through
it. Be prepared that you may get terrible performance with this method. 

 

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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 10:46:32 +0200
From: "rsbrux" <rsbrux at yahoo.com>
To: <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] GC 3.11 crashes during "Check & Repair"
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Thanks Kalpesh,
My problem is that the Ubuntu Studio 22.04 repositories only have GC 4.8,
and I don't feel competent to install a Flatpak.
Is there a repository I can add to my Software Sources to install later GC
versions?
If not, how about a snap?  I would feel more comfortable with that than with
a Flatpak, because snap is already baked in to Ubuntu Studio 22.04.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net> 
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2022 10:45 PM
To: rsbrux at yahoo.com
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] GC 3.11 crashes during "Check & Repair"

4.11 is the current official release so it won't hurt to go to that version
instead of 4.8. 

I use compressed XML version of file running on Windows 11 and frankly
speaking I never had to revert back to previous version of data file for
being corrupt. This history goes back to since 3.x version days. 
 
I do reconcile my accounts, including brokerage, on 6 to 7 month cycles and
have found to match transactions downloaded so corruption is least of
worries with GNC.

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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 16:25:23 +0200
From: "rsbrux" <rsbrux at yahoo.com>
To: <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] GC 3.11 crashes during "Check & Repair"
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Many thanks to all who have offered help and advice.  The following evidence
strongly suggests a memory management problem to me:
1. I was able to perform "Check & Repair" on all accounts and subaccounts by
dividing them up into smaller groups, saving, exiting and restarting GC in
between.
2. If I tried to "Check & Repair" too much at once, GUI response would slow
dramatically and GC would forget how to do things it had already done
successful in the same session, e.g. saving, which, when attempted, produced
messages like:
>>
* 22:08:34  WARN <gnc.gui> [gnc_builder_connect_full_func()] ggaff: could
not find signal handler 'gnc_ui_file_access_response_cb'.
<<
I now have what I think is a working and fully checked file in GC 3.11 for
Windows and will now try upgrading it to 4.8 in Ubuntu Studio.
My file does include Trading accounts, so Kalpesh's suspicions may be right.
However, this raises the question of whether I need a newer version than 4.8
in Ubuntu Studio.



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