It's all documented in the wiki at
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak including how to run it :-)
Cheers David H
On Sun, 25 Feb 2024 at 5:29 pm, R Losey wrote:
> As a follow-up to this, I installed flatpack and installed GnuCash (there
> was a lot of good how-to stuff)... what was harder to
As a follow-up to this, I installed flatpack and installed GnuCash (there
was a lot of good how-to stuff)... what was harder to find (not lots
harder, but enough to be annoying) was how to run it from flatpak. I found
it and am running 5.5.
I then removed the repository GnuCash 4.8 so I won't
Thanks for this... I haven't seen any notice about file changes between
major versions (probably because - as you say - it is silently checked).
Yes, the Ubuntu version is from the repository. I'll have to look up
installing flatpak to get the 5.x version of GnuCash - I'm not going to do
the
There are some changes between major versions. There are checks silently
run when you first open your file with a new major version.
You can run those checks explicitly via Actions > Check & Repair.
The goal is usually to keep compatibility between the last minor release
of a major version
So I have wonderful GnuCash installed on WIndows 10, on an M1 iMac, and on
Linux (Ubuntu 22.04LTS).
I mostly use the iMac and Windows versions, and I've always kept these two
versions in sync; that is, when I decided to upgrade to 5.1, I install 5.1
back-to-back on the iMac and Windows
