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 accidentally run it. On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 1:11 AM R Losey <rlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 export/import work. I'd rather just not run it at all on Ubuntu... I > had been running a flatpak version earlier (that was on the previous LTS > version, where the repository version was [I think] at 3.x). > > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 11:48 AM Adrien Monteleone < > adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > >> 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 and the next major version, in case you upgrade, have >> serious issues, and need to fall back. >> >> I wouldn't worry too much about mix-n-match within the same major >> version (say, all machines on 5.x) but if you have to keep one machine >> held back, at least get it to the last release of that version. In your >> case, that would mean getting the Linux box up to 4.14. Since you're >> using Ubuntu 22.04 and GnuCash 4.8, I'll hazard a guess that was from >> the Ubuntu repo. You'd need to switch to flatpak to get 4.14 if you >> don't want to build from source, but in either of those cases, you might >> as well just bump the Linux box to match your others in the 5.x series. >> >> The only alternative I can think of to keep the Linux version at 4.8, >> would be to export your transactions regularly from one of the other >> machines and then import them into a separate file used only with 4.8. >> But that is way more work than even building from source each release, >> not to mention updating a flatpak. >> >> Regards, >> Adrien >> >> On 2/24/24 10:01 AM, R Losey wrote: >> > 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 computers... mostly this was due >> to a >> > fear of corrupting the data files by running different versions. >> > >> > But lately, and from education reading this list, I am thinking that the >> > data file format doesn't change, and the GnuCash version is more like a >> > "shell" around which the data file is operated upon, so maybe it's okay >> to >> > have Linux at 4.8 and Windows at 5.5-1 and iMac at 5.3. >> > >> > But I thought I'd run it by this group to see what people think. >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > > -- > _________________________________ > Richard Losey > rlo...@gmail.com > Micah 6:8 > -- _________________________________ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ 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.
