[GNC] 5.15 update Linux lagging behind.

[Adrien Monteleone]

Building from source *can* be an issue if you are on an LTS OS that is 
more than 2 years old. There *can* be dependency hell in some 
situations. If that is your case, Flatpak is indeed the best bet.

On the other hand, you might be lucky, and there are no dependency chain 
problems, in which case, build away.

Regards,
Adrien

On 3/30/26 1:59 PM, David Cousens wrote:
> Mike,
>   
> Wrong place to ask. The Linux Mint developers maintain the repositories
> of software they guarantee to work with Linux Mint and the GnuCash
> developers have no control over what they choose to make available.
> They usually only change the version of GnuCash when they release a new
> version of Linux Mint and it is usually the most recent version at that
> time.
> 
> To stay up to date with GnuCash you can either build from sources (not
> very difficult once you have the dependencies installed, mainly the
> development headers and have the compilers cmake and ninja setup. I
> build and install a new version usually in under 10 min) or download
> the flatpak version.
> 
> Launchpad (https://launchpad.net/~gnucash/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/)
> maintains a ppa for Ubuntu systems (Linux Mint is Ubuntu based) which
> should have GnuCash 5.15 fairly soon. That page has instructions adding
> the ppa to the system. After adding the ppa type
> sudo apt install gnucash if you don't have GnuCash already installed
> at a terminal prompt and it will update to the latest available
> (currently still 5.14).