[GNC] Online Quotes failures in flatpak

[rsbrux]

Many thanks for the helpful instructions and links. Following them, I
managed to install the latest GC version using apt, and copied my
personal data from ~/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash to
~/.local/share/gnucash/. This migrated a lot  of my preferences, but I
was disappointed to find that the copied GCM metadata files do not
include the paths to the .gnucash data files, so the new installation
didn't know where to find my data.
Meanwhile, an update to the flatpak has been released that fixes the
Online Quotes problem, so I am going back to flatpak and deinstalling
the deb package.

> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2025 13:33:59 -0700
> From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> To: Keith Myers <keith.myers at att.net>
> Cc: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Online Quotes failures in flatpak
> Message-ID: <8E707BE3-EC57-4987-A992-4A550A005697 at ceridwen.us>
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> 
> You can get older versions of flatpaks from
> https://code.gnucash.org/builds/stable/. The releases are the ones
> without a training git commit, e.g. gnucash-stable-C.11-D.11 (C is
> for code, i.e. the program itself, and D is for documentation, i.e.
> the Manual and the Tutorial and Concept Guide).
> 
> Ubuntu users can get up-tp-date GnuCash releases from
> https://launchpad.net/~gnucash/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/ and Debian ones
> from the current backports Source. 
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
> > On Jul 4, 2025, at 09:11, Keith Myers <keith.myers at att.net> wrote:
> > 
> > It is the 5.5 version.  I've done the same and removed the 5.12
> > Flatpak version to get quotes working again.
> >    On Friday, July 4, 2025 at 01:21:22 AM PDT, rsbrux via gnucash-
> > user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:  
> > 
> > I have already given up on both the snap and the flatpak versions
> > of
> > Firefox and switched to a native deb installation, which is working
> > better for me.
> > I am therefor tempted to scrap the flatpak version of GC in favor
> > of a
> > native installation. 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?
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