[GNC] Gnucash PPA version Vs Gnucash Flatpak

[Tommy Trussell]

On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM Mark Penner <mrp at markpenner.space> wrote:
>
>> May 22, 2025 11:37:54 Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > Flatpak actually updates its packages itself (on its own schedule, but
>> with
>> > no interaction from the user) within a few hours, or at most a couple of
>> > days, of the repository getting the latest GnuCash release. (Unless you
>> > have used the flatpak mask command to suppress updates to the package.)
>>
>> Flatpak doesn't work that way, are you thinking of snap?
>>
>
> It does on my system. Snap does, too. I usually kick off the updates for
> flatpak and snap manually so I know what is being updated. I actually find
> it a bit annoying the updates happen when I'm not looking.
>

I never thought about it except that I was intentionally holding off on
upgrading GnuCash a few months back, and flatpak upgraded it for me before
I asked.

Based on my reading, it might be a side-effect of installing the flatpak
integration into GNOME.
Specifically the gnome-software-plugin-flatpak package