[GNC] PPA vs. Flatpak Questions

[Bruce Schuck]

On Sat Jun 6 16:15:59 EDT 2026, Bruce S wrote:

 > I had noticed last year that ppa:gnucash hasn't been updated in a
 > long while. I was able to contact the former maintainer team and have 
 > it
 > transferred to myself.

 > While "Panda Jim" is not affiliated with the GnuCash developers, his
 > ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/gnucash was kept somewhat up to date. I have
 > reached
 > out to him and I am waiting for a response.

 > Myself, while I am familiar with creating custom ".deb" packages
 > (I do
 > this in my day job for some in-house applications), I have yet to
 > tackle the details of creating ppa packages. My goal is to not depend
 > on Panda Jim, but to assist in filling in the gaps while he is busy
 > with other applications (he does contribute quite a bit to other
 > applications).

I've attempted to contact Panda Jim a few times in the last month with 
no responses. But I have been making progress on learning how to create 
and upload packages to a PPA.

For those running Ubuntu 24.04, there is a GnuCash 5.16 release in the 
ppa:gnucash/ppa. Additionally, you should find GnuCash 5.16 for Ubuntu 
20.04, 22.04, and 24.04 in my ppa:bpschuck/testppa PPA (as of this email 
the 20.04 (aka focal) is waiting for the Launchpad build queue.

For those that don't want to build their own GnuCash from source, or use 
a FlatPak, give these a test run. I've only done some minimal testing of 
the 5.16 on Ubuntu 24.04 version.

Remember to backup your data file(s) before trying.

Thanks.

Bruce S.