[GNC] porting Gnucash from W10 to Linux Mint

[David Cousens]

Sam,

If you install the Flathub version from the Linux Mint Software
Manager, it should be GnuCash V5.10 at least on Linux Mint V22. The non
Flatpack version is GnuCash V5.5.

On earlier Linux MInt versions you will be limited to earlier versions
of GnuCash in most cases.

If you are confident with building software it is not hard to build
GnuCash (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_On_Linux) once you have
all the necessary dependencies installed otherwise I would stick with
the Flathub version. See https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak for
installation details and issues.

David Cousens

On Tue, 2025-01-21 at 16:49 -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?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Sam
> 
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