[GNC] How to install/load custom report in flatpak installation *for all users*

Wm Tarr wm at ilipsis.net
Sun Jun 7 08:47:09 EDT 2026


Have you ended up with a duplicate report guid?

see

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Your report must have a globally unique identifier (guid). GnuCash will 
fail to start if multiple reports have the same unique id.

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from the same page you linked to in your message.

Wm


On 2026-06-03 17:18, rsbrux via gnucash-user wrote:
> I have installed GnuCash flatpak for *all users* under Ubuntu Studio
> 24.04.1.LTS.
> Extrapolatiing from
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#System-wide
> and
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports#Load_the_report_from_the_installed_report_directory
> I tried copying a custom .scm file (the recently announced financial-
> radar) into
> /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/current/active/files/share/gui
> le/site/2.2/gnucash/reports/standard/
> However, this prevents GnuCash from starting.
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports#Load_the_report_from_a_user_account
> says that I need to declare the report in config.user or
> config_user.scm.
> However, I don't want to have to do that for every user.
> How can I declare the report for all users of the flatpak installation?
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