[GNC] porting Gnucash from W10 to Linux Mint

[Chris Green]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 04:49:26PM -0500, Sam Fredo via gnucash-user wrote:
> i'm trying to move away from Microsoft so I've settled on Linux Mint.
> 
> I've been using Gnucash for several years now and it is absolutely the best.
> 
> I have tried to move the .gnucash file to the Linux Mint version but the 
> file won't open. I receive a message that the Mint version is to old and 
> the windows file has unsupported features.
> 
> Windows version is 5.10
> 
> Mint version is 3.8
> 
> I tried to download the latest version of Gnucash using the Software 
> Manager but it appears that 3.8 is the current version.
> 
> I also looked at installing Gnucash from the Flatpack. I'm new to this 
> so I'm hesitent to try this.
> 
> i've tried Export/Import but that doesn't seem to work.
> 
> So my question is, how (what is the best/easiest way) do it move my 
> Gnucash data from W10 Gnucash version 5.10 to Mint Gnucash version 3.8?
> 
I think flatpack is probably the best way to go.  The instructions do
look a bit intimidating I agree.  As long as you make sure you have
secure backups of the GnuCash data files you can't really get into too
much trouble though.

I use Linux but not Mint so I'm not the best person to help with
details, maybe there are Mint users here who can help some more.

-- 
Chris Green