[GNC] Online Quotes failures in flatpak

[Bruce Schuck]

On Fri Jul 4 12:11:29 EDT 2025, Keith Myers wrote:

> It is the 5.5 version.  I've done the same and removed the 5.12 
> Flatpak version to get quotes working again.

> My distro's repository:

> http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Package

 > offers me

 > Version: 1:5.5-1.2build1
 > but I can't make sense of the version numbering.
 > Is this also version 5.12?
 > If so, can I expect online quote retrieval to work in this version?	

To answer your question as to whether or not the version in the Ubuntu 
repo, "1:5.5-1.2build1" is 5.12, the answer is no. It is version 5.5 of 
GnuCash. You can easily verify by executing the command "gnucash-cli 
--version" in a terminal. Versions available in OS repositories, 
*especially* Ubuntu's, are typically behind current releases.

This is one of the reasons the GnuCash team makes the Flatpak versions 
available. And why an effort has begun to offer Ubuntu GnuCash packages 
through the https://launchpad.net/~gnucash/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/ PPA. 
These packages are *not* the official Ubuntu/Canonical packages, and any 
issues with a package from this PPA should be relayed to the "Gnucash 
packaging team" (https://launchpad.net/~gnucash).

Bruce S