Before you go the flatpak route though, it may be worth figuring out why your settings are not saved. Are there any messages in your trace file ?
A known issue with saving settings is when you have applications installed in /usr/local. Or more specifically if there are schema files in /usr/local/share/glib-2.0/schemas/. In that case gnucash fails to find its own schema files in /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/. This issue was fixed for gnucash 4.13. Regards, Geert Op vrijdag 14 april 2023 15:51:08 CEST schreef Papa Oz: > Hello, Carsten, and thanks for the reply. > > Please forgive the anti-spam thing. I had put @gnucash.org in my address > book and I assumed all list-oriented traffic would come through their > server. Now that I see how it works I will probably have to change my > registration to a different address that lacks the filtering. Meanwhile > you are "allowed". > > All the files are within my home directory tree and I checked the > permissions already. There are some symlinks involved. They work with 3.8 > but I suppose something might have changed in 4.8 such that they are a > problem. > > I did notice that the developers have gone the flatpak route. I am not fond > of flatpaks, which is why I mentioned deb in my post. I suspect the > sandbox aspect of flatpaks will give me some trouble sharing files between > two systems. But I guess I will have to add gnucash to my very small > collection of flatpaks and figure out how to work out the sharing. > > Thank you for your recommendation of 4.13. I will give it a try. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Carsten Hütter <carsten.huet...@gmx.de> > Sent: Apr 14, 2023 7:17 AM > To: Papa Oz <pap...@earthlink.net>, <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > Subject: Re: [GNC] gnucash 4.8 does not save settings > > Hi Papa Oz! > > First of all: I'd recommend updating to a more current version both of > GnuCash (latest 4.x is 4.14 from 2023-03-25) and Finance::Quote (latest is > 1.54 from 2022-12-26). GnuCash 5.0 still has some issues. > > The developers decided to publish the stable GnuCash Linux versions as > flatpak, not as deb packages. So in order to get the cutting edge version > without building from source code, you have to install flatpak. I'm on > Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, only limited experience with other Linux flavors > (switched from OpenSUSE sometime in the last century or millennium), but > the following instructions should work more or less: $ sudo apt install > flatpakThe latest GnuCash 4.x flatpak on code.gnucash.org is 4.13 from > 2023-03-18, can be downloaded here: > https://code.gnucash.org/builds/flatpak/maint/gnucash-maint-C4.13-164-g207b > 105b9c-D4.13-7-g96300db7.flatpakrefCan be installed with: $ cd > ~/Downloads/GnuCash/ # Change to location of your flatpak file $ flatpak > install gnucash-maint-C4.13-164-g207b105b9c-D4.13-7-g96300db7.flatpakref # > sudo not neededAnd started with: $ flatpak run org.gnucash.GnucashThere you > go. Each flatpak package includes it's own current Finance::Quote. > > To get the gnucash starter icon in your environment, you may need to install > the Linux mint 21 cinnamon flatplak plugin: $ sudo apt install > flatpak-plugin-cinnamonOn my system there are two flatpak GnuCash versions > installed, which reside peacefully next door to each other: $ flatpak list > --app > Name Application ID Version > Zweig Ursprung > Installation GnuCash org.gnucash.GnuCash > 4.13-164-g207b105b9c+ maint-C4.13-164-g207b105b9c-D4.13-7-g96300db7 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
