Thanks. I might look at the Debian repos. But afaik, and as discussed by others in the thread, it appears that for Ubuntu the app versions are frozen to the main kernel versions. So unless some other method is used, we're stuck at 3.8 for Gnucash (for instance) until Mint upgrades or we can otherwise force a more current kernel version. With Mint, upgrades seem to happen every 2-3 years, so it's a long time to wait for app updates.
The other apps I mentioned (LibreOffice, Firefox, and Thunderbird) seem to have a way other than Flatpack to bypass the Ubuntu limitation. I don't really know how. Otherwise, we have to build from source to get a newer version; not the most user-friendly method, especially after using Windows for many years. -MIke On 12/3/2021 3:13 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Am 03.12.21 um 22:19 schrieb Mike Brady: >> 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 repository is way out of date (3.8). > : > > AFAIK the Ubuntu family is a branch of the Debian family. And Debian has > usually recent GnuCash versions in their Backports repos. > Q1: Offers Ubuntu no backports repos? > If the answer is No, Why? > Perhhaps worth to discuss with the Ubuntu user base? > > Regards > Frank _______________________________________________ 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.
