On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 2:16 PM Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> Op zaterdag 19 oktober 2019 22:37:40 CEST schreef Tommy Trussell: > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 5:14 PM Jon Schewe <jpsch...@mtu.net> wrote: > > > Note that you can also use flatpak to get it. > > > > > > sudo apt install flatpak > > > flatpak install flathub org.gnucash.GnuCash > > > > Thank you for the reminder! > > > > The flatpak may work for some folks, and it is certainly easy to install. > > > > Sadly, the flatpak has some important disadvantages. It requires more RAM > > (memory) to operate, which didn't work well on my older system with > limited > > RAM. I also had some issues with flatpak sandboxing -- I keep my GnuCash > > data files stored in a way that were not accessible to the flatpak when I > > tried. (Though I feel sure I can move the data files if I need to.) > > > I'm curious, what location was not available to flatpak ? It is limited by > default but you should be able to grant it the proper permissions to > access > most locations. > > Geert > I did not try it much due to the memory limitations. However on that system I have a "shared" directory symlinked out of the user's home directory to another user directory where GnuCash and all other work-related files were intended to be accessible to any of several users logging into the same machine having "shared" group permissions. I set it up maybe ten years ago, and in practice it hasn't been as useful, convenient or robust as I imagined. But in the case of the GnuCash flatpak I tried, the symlinked directories were not visible at all, and I didn't start tinkering with permissions to see if I could make them work. I recently got an email notice from Dropbox telling me they see I am using symlinks and want me to know they are going to stop supporting symlinked directories soon, so if I decide to keep using Dropbox I will probably need to make some big changes anyway. Eventually I'll upgrade to a system having a "modern" amount of RAM so flatpak may become my preferred way to stay up-to-date on GnuCash. But for now I also wanted to get it working on Ubuntu Bionic. _______________________________________________ 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.
