Thoughts about installing updated version of gnucash or any other package
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I am trying to find a way to install a newer version of gnucash than the 2.6.19 that ships with trisquel, mainly because of some much needed features about my country's tax system.
So far I found 3 options:
1) by using flatpack, witch I try to avoid because I do not really know anything about flatpak, ethics and security. This method provides the latest version of 4xx series, which has a feature I want but I can live without it,
2) using official ppa from gnu.org @ https://launchpad.net/~dns/+archive/ubuntu/gnu which seems the more secure option but hasn't any activity for more than a year, and
3) an unofficial ppa for ubuntu 18.04 @ https://launchpad.net/~sicklylife/+archive/ubuntu/gnucash that has the latest version of gnucash 3xx series.
I am interested in both tecnical and ethical opinions, so if anyone has any suggestions please feel free to share them.
Guix has the latest versions of most libre software including Gnucash, and would be more appropriate for installing from a 3rd party repo than flatpak or Ubuntu.
If you want to use latest (or at least not very old) packages, a (semi-)rolling released distribution is best. However I don't see many (semi-)rolling free/libre distributions. Maybe GuixSD can be counted as one. Other choices including Debian testing, but be sure not to install the non-free firmware.
A (semi-)rolling distribution is better than either flatpak or PPA.
No, just use Trisquel and install the Guix package manager. Problem solved.
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Guix distro is great with a great prospect and very friendly people in the irc chat. I installed it on my laptop for a week and I had a great experience with it. But being an advanced distro it needs reading, researching and ... time, so I put it on hold for a while. Guix package manager seems a reasonable alternative and a pretty safe choice. For now I chose to install gnucash using the ppa from gnu.org, hoping for an upgrade from the gnu team. If I am not satisfied, or if I have more time in the future, then guix (pakcage manager) it is.
GnuCash's developers apparently build the Flatpak themselves: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak
Another option, if you do not mind manual updates for GnuCash, is to download the .deb packages of gnucash-common and gnucash and install them in that order (double-clicking on the .deb file should launch GDebi, which proposes the installation). For instance, if your system is 64-bit and you want the latest version from Debian:
Using latest deb packages from Debian's testing is not recommended, because they have a lot of dependencies, which may not be new enough in Trisquel (as an LTS distribution).
You are right. I only checked that the dependencies of gnucash-common were satisfied. Nevertheless, the problem was with the gnucach package: it depends on guile-3.0, which itself depends on guile-3.0-libs, which depends on a newer version of libc6.
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