I have been playing with this for a few days now and I think I have it
figured out. What started out as a "How do I print a transaction
register" turned into me working in the background messing up my own
installation. Turns out Software Manager in Linux Mint has two versions
of gnucash available. I managed to get both of them installed at some
point without realizing it. I finally managed to get rid of the old
version somehow and I am using v5.14 (flatpack). I also can print stuff.
So, with that, we can consider this thread closed. I am grateful to all
of you who hung out with this old fart until the end. Have a happy St.
Pat's Day!
JC
On 3/12/26 3:54 PM, Mark Bourne wrote:
From earlier messages, it sounded like Jerry had GnuCash 2.14
installed via Flatpack. His latest message below indicates that he
reinstalled using APT. I suspect he now actually has both GnuCash
2.14 installed via Flatpack and 5.5 installed, since APT apparently
reported that GnuCash wasn't installed and I don't think he mentioned
uninstalling the Flatpack version.
GnuCash 5.5 is the version in the Ubuntu 24.04 APT repositories, on
which Linux Mint 22 is based and I think Jerry previously mentioned
that's his OS. Yes, that GnuCash version is quite old. Personally I
switched to using the GnuCash PPA, which currently provides 5.14, due
to a bug with the "since last run" dialog in 5.5 that's fixed in newer
versions of GnuCash.
Mark.
Maf. King wrote:
New releases of GC are announced on here. 5.14 was mid-december. I'd
imagine
that 5.15 is not far away, but I don't know for sure.
V5.5 is about 2 years old now (released feb 2024, i think) but if it
works for
you, then Great!!!
I thought you had V5.14-flatpack installed originally. (Indeed, that
would
seem the case if APT said that GC was not installed when you knew it
was....
the Mint package was not installed originally, but the flatpack
system is
outside the Mint software manager and way more up to date)
HTH,
Maf.
On Thursday, 12 March 2026 16:58:25 GMT Jerry Criswell (JC) wrote:
Hello Everyone.
I believe I have fixed the problem of not being able to print a
transaction report.
While I was messing around with the environment variable I trashed the
menu item for GC. The desktop icon still worked. I thought about it
for a couple days and I was pretty sure if I re-installed it might fix
the problem. I opened a terminal and did sudo apt remove gnucash. It
claimed gnucash was not installed. Since I had already used GC many
times I knew it was time to reinstall. I did the re-install and GC
started right up, found my file and everything was good. Out of
curiosity I tried a transaction report AND IT WORKED!! I checked the
version and I have installed v5.5. I think I had 5.4 before. Has there
been an upgrade since Jan 1? How do we get notified when there is an
upgrade?
JC
On 3/12/26 4:20 AM, G McAlister wrote:
On 11/03/2026 16:16, Jerry Criswell (JC) wrote:
I appreciate your suggestion, but I'm afraid, based on the docs, that
flatseal is over my head.
JC
On 3/11/26 10:12 AM, Mark Penner wrote:
Mar 10, 2026 13:59:54 Jerry Criswell (JC) <[email protected]>:
Using the flatpak version worked. I am so happy.
It's been close to forever since I've set an environmental
variable. Where and how?
I believe you can install Flatseal and use it to set the environment
variable for the GnuCash flatpak. Docs:
https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal/blob/master/DOCUMENTATION.md#environm
ent
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Jerry,
If you want to stay with flatpak, then here is how to set the
environment variable using the command line:
flatpak override --env=WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1
org.gnucash.GnuCash
To view what overrides you have set:
flatpak override --show org.gnucash.GnuCash
To remove an override:
flatpak override --unset-env=WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE
If you use flatpak per user as opposed to system, then add --user to
these commands after the override, so for example:
flatpak override --user --show org.gnucash.GnuCash.
Graham.
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