[GNC] Online Quotes failures in flatpak FIXED

[John Ralls]

I was able to figure out the problem with the Flatpak over the weekend with Bruce Schuck’s help: I hadn’t installed libssl-dev in my new VM, causing the finance-quote dependency mapping script to skip the perl package NET::SSLeay. Without that package it wasn’t able to connect to https pages.

There’s a new flatpak, 5.12-1, available that fixes it.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Jul 7, 2025, at 2:54 AM, rsbrux via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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