The barrier Mike is someone with the time and energy to maintain a ppa. The reason Linux Mint (and other distros) freeze the versions they use is to reduce their workload to maneagable proportions and to ensure that versions of other software included witha n OS release will at least work with that release and libraries included in the release.
Building on Linux is not too onerous once you have the header files for the dependencies loaded and the basic build requirements setup. The build instructions in the wiki are pretty complete. The build procedure includes checks on the dpeendencies which stop the build if a dependency is missing to allow it to be fixed before restarting. A number of people have put scripts up which will load the dependencies although these can become dated reasonably quickly as newer GC versions can have dependencies on updated libraries that a given script may not install. David Cousens On Fri, 2021-12-03 at 13:19 -0800, Mike Brady wrote: > Have been following this thread because I use Linux Mint, which is based > on the LTS version of Ubuntu. Yes, the GnuCash version in the Ubuntu LTS > repository is way out of date (3.8). I'm out of date, even on Windows > (3.10 in one machine, 4.3 on the other), mainly due to laziness about > chasing down latest versions and wariness about file compatibility, plus > wanting to maintain compatibility with the LInux machine. So far, that's > worked. But it would be nice to have everything, at least briefly, on > the same version. I've built my own before, for other software, but I'd > rather not. > > Anyway, for the Linux side, I wonder why the repository version must be > frozen, or if there's a workaround other than using Flatpack (which I've > had problems with as a platform). Libreoffice, Firefox, and Thunderbird > seem to be able to work around it, and their Linux versions update to > match the Windows version within a week (usually only a day or 2) of the > Windows release. Not sure how they're doing it, but it might be > worthwhile for GNC to try it - perhaps a separate PPA? Since Linux is > polite enough to ask before updating, those who don't want to update can > easily block it. > > -Mike Brady > Plain Old User > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
