You might be able to gun gnucash on a chromebook using Google Play Store. Here's a list of ChromeOS Hardware Google says will work with Google Play:
https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-supporting-android-apps I know it can work because I'm looking at GnuCash 2.4.0 right now on my LG V20. It opens my gnucash file from my ubuntu 14 laptop (gnucash version 2.6.7). So it does recognize and open the gnucash file from my laptop. I think it even opened the sqlite .gnucash file, and saved it as an .xml. But I can't swear to that. I have not tried data entry on the android phone. My guess is that data entry on a Chromebook might be something like dancing around a dumpster fire, but it might be better than that. I would try to download gnucash from the Google Play Store (if your chromebook lets you) and try to open your most recent backup file. You might have to send it as an email attachment to yourself, and use the browser on the Chromebook to save it to the device. Your obsessive backup compulsion is a good thing, a very good thing. I celebrate that disease myself. Chromebooks are a little awkward outside of their principal intended use (web browsing maybe? I can't tell), but they can work. Very sorry you lost your laptop. That really hoovers. Worse things can happen (like dropping the keys to your Saab in Lake Superior), but just the aggravation of replacing the machine and software is very time consuming. Does anyone on the list know of a virtual machine over internet set up that could run gnucash? Amazon and Google clouds say they can do something like that, but it would involve some kind of (X)windows client over internet. Gordon On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 4:04 PM Adrien Monteleone <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > This link gives some info on flatpaks as well: > https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/08/19/install-linux-applications-chrome-os/ > > Note, ChromeOS is using the Debian9 Stretch repos, so if you just use apt-get > you won’t get the latest GnuCash version. > > You’ll either need a .deb from a PPA (or build it yourself) or try the > flatpak. (not sure if Geert has started packaging this yet for 3.3) > > Regards, > Adrien > > > On Oct 6, 2018, at 3:55 PM, Adrien Monteleone > > <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > > > Do a search for “run linux apps on chromebook” and you’ll get a page of > > hits, all from this year, the first 5 or so from the last 6 weeks showing > > you how to install linux apps on a Chromebook. > > > > If you end up with a situation where you need to build first and can’t use > > a PPA or otherwise download a .deb file, you could first install > > Virtualbox, install a linux distro (and just use that to run GnuCash) then > > build the app as a .deb, share it back to ChromeOS and install. > > > > You might have quite a few hoops, but it should be possible. > > > > Regards, > > Adrien > > > >> On Oct 6, 2018, at 3:49 PM, randix <butterands...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> So I'm not feelin' real warm and fuzzy at the moment, notwithstanding that > >> I > >> lost my laptop earlier today > >> > >> So I can't get Gnucash on a Chromebook > >> > >> So I can't get Gnucash Portable to work on a Chromebook > >> > >> If I want to "rely" on the GnuCash app (which I realize has zippo to do > >> with > >> the the "authentic" GnuCash), I have the challenge since I currently have > >> no > >> access to GnuCash, to export my account structure to that app unless I > >> spend > >> oodles of hours re-creating it, and I wonder even if I somehow did, how > >> that > >> app would accommodate the tons of data that I have in my backup GnuCash > >> files (I know, I know, that's not a topic for this site). > >> > >> Sorta feelin' like what it must feel like when a nut laughs at a screw > >> > >> Bartender? > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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. _______________________________________________ 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. 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