[GNC] How to upgrade to 5.1 in Ubuntu

[Roland Giesler]

Thanks, I have some experience with flatpak, albeit some of of it 
negative.  I suppose I should uninstall my apt installed version 4.8 
first first then, correct?

On 2023/05/08 20:02, Carsten Hütter wrote:
> Hello Roland!
>
> To being able to keep GnuCash up to date, you should install a flatpak
> version. The wiki tells you how to do that.
> GnuCash wiki flatpak German:
>
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/De/Flatpak
>
> My preferred way is to download the flatpak package from the GnuCash
> build-server.
> GnuCash build-server GnuCash 5.1 (release) flatpak:
>
> https://code.gnucash.org/builds/flatpak/stable/gnucash-stable-C5.1-D5.1.flatpakref 
>
>
> To quickly get bug corrected nightly flatpaks, you can choose one of the
> other ones in:
>
> https://code.gnucash.org/builds/flatpak/stable/
>
> E. g. the lastest nightly build GnuCash 5.1-14:
>
> https://code.gnucash.org/builds/flatpak/stable/gnucash-stable-C5.1-14-g73337cff5a-D5.1.flatpakref 
>
>
> The tarball only holds the source code, so you have to compile it by
> yourself on your system. Can be done, but is a lot more cumbersome. 
> BTDT...
>
> HTH! Regards
>
> Carsten
>
> Am 08.05.23 um 10:13 schrieb Roland Giesler via gnucash-user:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm looking for some details on how to upgrade to GNUCash 5.1 on
>> Ubuntu 22.04.  I installed GNUCash from the repositories (v 4.8), but
>> the new version is not in the repos yet.  So, if I install manually,
>> I'll probably end up having both versions installed, not?
>>
>> Question 1: Is there a Debian or Ubuntu repository somewhere that I
>> could install from?
>>
>> Question 2: Failing q1 above, should I uninstall my GNUCash and then
>> install from the tarball?
>>
>> thanks in advance for your valued responses!
>>
>>
>> Roland
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