[GNC] Running mixed versions (okay?)

[David H]

It's all documented in the wiki at
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak including how to run it :-)

Cheers David H

On Sun, 25 Feb 2024 at 5:29 pm, R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:

> As a follow-up to this, I installed flatpack and installed GnuCash (there
> was a lot of good how-to stuff)... what was harder to find (not lots
> harder, but enough to be annoying) was how to run it from flatpak. I found
> it and am running 5.5.
>
> I then removed the repository GnuCash 4.8 so I won't accidentally run it.
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 1:11 AM R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for this... I haven't seen any notice about file changes between
> > major versions (probably because - as you say - it is silently checked).
> >
> > Yes, the Ubuntu version is from the repository. I'll have to look up
> > installing flatpak to get the 5.x version of GnuCash - I'm not going to
> do
> > the export/import work. I'd rather just not run it at all on Ubuntu... I
> > had been running a flatpak version earlier (that was on the previous LTS
> > version, where the repository version was [I think] at 3.x).
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 11:48 AM Adrien Monteleone <
> > adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> >
> >> There are some changes between major versions. There are checks silently
> >> run when you first open your file with a new major version.
> >>
> >> You can run those checks explicitly via Actions > Check & Repair.
> >>
> >> The goal is usually to keep compatibility between the last minor release
> >> of a major version and the next major version, in case you upgrade, have
> >> serious issues, and need to fall back.
> >>
> >> I wouldn't worry too much about mix-n-match within the same major
> >> version (say, all machines on 5.x) but if you have to keep one machine
> >> held back, at least get it to the last release of that version. In your
> >> case, that would mean getting the Linux box up to 4.14. Since you're
> >> using Ubuntu 22.04 and GnuCash 4.8, I'll hazard a guess that was from
> >> the Ubuntu repo. You'd need to switch to flatpak to get 4.14 if you
> >> don't want to build from source, but in either of those cases, you might
> >> as well just bump the Linux box to match your others in the 5.x series.
> >>
> >> The only alternative I can think of to keep the Linux version at 4.8,
> >> would be to export your transactions regularly from one of the other
> >> machines and then import them into a separate file used only with 4.8.
> >> But that is way more work than even building from source each release,
> >> not to mention updating a flatpak.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Adrien
> >>
> >> On 2/24/24 10:01 AM, R Losey wrote:
> >> > So I have wonderful GnuCash installed on WIndows 10, on an M1 iMac,
> and
> >> on
> >> > Linux (Ubuntu 22.04LTS).
> >> >
> >> > I mostly use the iMac and Windows versions, and I've always kept these
> >> two
> >> > versions in sync; that is, when I decided to upgrade to 5.1, I install
> >> 5.1
> >> > back-to-back on the iMac and Windows computers... mostly this was due
> >> to a
> >> > fear of corrupting the data files by running different versions.
> >> >
> >> > But lately, and from education reading this list, I am thinking that
> the
> >> > data file format doesn't change, and the GnuCash version is more like
> a
> >> > "shell" around which the data file is operated upon, so maybe it's
> okay
> >> to
> >> > have Linux at 4.8 and Windows at 5.5-1 and iMac at 5.3.
> >> >
> >> > But I thought I'd run it by this group to see what people think.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks!
> >> >
> >>
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> > Micah 6:8
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