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* no ''direct report printing'', but printing them to file and direct printing of checks works and | * no ''direct report printing'', but printing them to file and direct printing of checks works and | ||
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* To use '''smart cards''', at least [https://www.fosslinux.com/13357/new-flatpak-1-3-2-uses-custom-fuse-filesystem-installation-technique.htm Flatpak 1.3.2] needs to be installed on your system. Complain against your distribution if they do not offer it. | * To use '''smart cards''', at least [https://www.fosslinux.com/13357/new-flatpak-1-3-2-uses-custom-fuse-filesystem-installation-technique.htm Flatpak 1.3.2] needs to be installed on your system. Complain against your distribution if they do not offer it. | ||
− | + | ;Upgrading from 4.4 or earlier to 4.5 or later: Preferences are lost. The easiest fix for this is probably to manually go through and reset all the Preferences the first time you start 4.5. They should stay set after that. See [https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798194 Bug 798194] for more information and another more complicated fix: {{Flatpak convert-pref.sh}} | |
+ | ;Ubuntu derivates: It was only reported by their users. A bug that causes guile to attempt to recompile all scm sources: {{Flatpak_Guile_Error_Demo}} | ||
* [https://github.com/flathub/org.gnucash.GnuCash/issues/ Current list] | * [https://github.com/flathub/org.gnucash.GnuCash/issues/ Current list] | ||
==Resolved== | ==Resolved== |
Revision as of 11:05, 30 June 2021
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Flatpaks are bundles which besides the program also contain all required libraries. Use cases:
- If your Linux distribution is too old to offer all required libraries but has Flatpak support, you can install a recent released version of GnuCash from the FlatHub repository.
- If a developer asks you to test a patch, you can use a nightly version from our Flatpak repository.
Contents
Known Issues
- We do not ship the Python Bindings,
- no direct report printing, but printing them to file and direct printing of checks works and
- To use smart cards, at least Flatpak 1.3.2 needs to be installed on your system. Complain against your distribution if they do not offer it.
- Upgrading from 4.4 or earlier to 4.5 or later
- Preferences are lost. The easiest fix for this is probably to manually go through and reset all the Preferences the first time you start 4.5. They should stay set after that. See Bug 798194 for more information and another more complicated fix:
# Backup your current sandbox settings: cp $HOME/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/config/glib-2.0/settings/keyfile \ $HOME/gnucash-settings.save # Real conversion: dconf dump /org/gnucash/ > \ $HOME/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/config/glib-2.0/settings/keyfile perl -pi.bkp -e's!^[[]![org/gnucash/!' \ $HOME/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/config/glib-2.0/settings/keyfile
- Ubuntu derivates
- It was only reported by their users. A bug that causes guile to attempt to recompile all scm sources:
: ;;; note: source file /app/share/guile//2.2/ice-9/eval.scm ;;; newer than compiled /app/lib/guile/2.2/ccache/ice-9/eval.go :
- Workaround:
# --system install cd /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash # OR --user install cd $HOME/.local/share/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash sudo find . -name '*.go' -exec touch '{}' ';'
Resolved
- All current versions are PSD2 capable of online banking via FinTS/Online-Banking (german) protocol.
Installation
You can configure many package managers like Gnome Software or KDE's Discover to at least install or update Flatpaks from Flathub, but on this page we will use the more powerful flatpak command line tool. The examples to install flatpak itself are written for Debian (in Buster Flatpak is already included, for Stretch and Jessie backports exist) and its derivates like Ubuntu.
- Hint
- For other distributions replace apt* <command> by your preferred commandline software managment tool and its command, i.e. for many rpm based distributions FlatPak.org offers Instructions for several distributions.
zypper install flatpak
Regular releases from flathub.org
You can have both the regular, currently GnuCash 5.9, and beta branches installed at the same time.
- Note
- The current versions contain Aqbanking 6.5.4.
Betas (GnuCash 5.9xx) are previews and only released in the last months before the next main version, see Release Schedule.
- See also Flathub
- For Stable Releases
-
# Install FlatPak (on debian based distributions, others have to replace 'apt-get install'): sudo apt-get install flatpak # Register FlatHub repository for a system app (available to all users): sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo # or only you: flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo # Install GnuCash ... # for all users: # sudo is only needed for a --system install, if the user is not in the 'sudo' group # --system is the default if --user is not specified sudo flatpak install --system flathub org.gnucash.GnuCash # or only you: flatpak install --user flathub org.gnucash.GnuCash # Run GnuCash: flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash
- Default App Installation Locations
--system (all users) /var/lib/flatpak --user ~/.local/share/flatpak
- Tip
- To get the most recent version, run each quarter year (see Release Schedule):
flatpak update
- To get the most recent version, run each quarter year (see Release Schedule):
- For Unstable (i.e., beta) Releases
- Do the process for stable releases, but register, install, and run as follows.
# Register: flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepo # Install flatpak install --user flathub-beta org.gnucash.GnuCash # Run flatpak run --branch=beta org.gnucash.GnuCash
- Downgrading
- It can't be done from the average package manager, but it can be done from the command line. It's a two-step command: The only gotcha is that if you have more than one repo that has org.gnucash.GnuCash I haven't found a way to tell the command which repo you want to manipulate. It seems flatpak will update all installed versions. If you have one app installed from our nightlies and one from flathub, the above command will fail as only the flathub repo will have the proper commit hash.
flatpak remote-info --log flathub org.gnucash.GnuCash # list all commits in the repo flatpak update --commit=HASH org.gnucash.GnuCash # checkout commit HASH in the repo
Test version from gnucash.org
- Warning
- Save your data before using test versions!
Often you can find test versions on the build-server. They come in two flavours:
- Maint
- Version 5.9 plus all recent bug fixes, but no new features: code.gnucash.org/builds/flatpak/maint/
- Master
- Version 5.9 plus new features, but bug fixes can be delayed a few days: code.gnucash.org/builds/flatpak/master/
- Tip
- The file names in these directories can be used in the example below after trimming the „gnucash-“ prefix and „.flatpakref“ suffix.
- Note
- The current version contains Aqbanking 6.5.12beta.
sudo apt install flatpak #install Flatpak
# register repositories:
sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists gnucash https://code.gnucash.org/builds/flatpak/gnucash-nightlies.flatpakrepo
sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak --arch=x86_64 remote-ls gnucash # show all packages
# output should be:
# org.gnucash.GnuCash
# org.gnucash.GnuCash.Debug
# org.gnucash.GnuCash.Locale
sudo flatpak --arch=x86_64 install gnucash org.gnucash.GnuCash//maint-C3.8b-163-g0e6c9e219-D3.8b-15-g0479ece # <-- change version here!
flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash # start program
- Note
- flatpak --arch=x86_64 is only required, if you have a 64-bit processor with a 32-bit OS.
Tips
Maintenance
You should — also if no new GnuCash version was announced — sometimes runsudo flatpak update # sudo is only required for systemwide installations
ID Zweig Op Remote Download
1. org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 19.08 u flathub < 85,1 MB
2. org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel 19.08 u flathub < 8,7 MB
3. org.gnome.Platform.Locale 3.34 u flathub < 322,2 MB (partial)
4. org.gnome.Platform 3.34 u flathub < 320,4 MB
5. org.gnome.Sdk.Locale 3.34 u flathub < 325,8 MB (partial)
6. org.gnome.Sdk 3.34 u flathub < 663,9 MB
Proceed with these changes to the user installation? [Y/n]:
- Note
- You can learn more about the Available Runtimes, Sandbox Permissions Reference …
Getting Console Output
In case of trouble get the console output:flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash
flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash --logto stdout
The latter will print all logs to the console rather than to an inaccessible trace file.
Using Command Line Tools
To call command line tools like aqbanking-cli, the following opens a command shell inside the sandbox of GnuCash.flatpak run --command=sh org.gnucash.GnuCash
Inside you can call related shell commands for Online Banking like aqbanking-cli… or Online Quotes gnc-fq-* etc.
The following enters the GnuCash sandbox and runs a gnucash-cli command in a single line (using the example of getting price quotes). This can be useful for automation, i.e. creating a modern systemd timer or a classical cron job to get price quotes on a regular basis.flatpak run --command=gnucash-cli org.gnucash.GnuCash --quotes get /path/to/file.gnucash
Notice the order of the arguments!
SQL Connection
Use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost. The latter will tell the mysql client to use unix file sockets. These are not permitted by default by the flatpak sandbox. You can enable permissions for this on your gnucash flatpak, though I don't know offhand where the unix socket is located. You'll have to figure that out first (it will look like a file on your system somewhere) and then use the flatpak override commmand to tell it to allow access to that file for the org.gnucash.GnuCash package.
Using 127.0.0.1 on the other hand will force mysql to use a real network connection. Those are not restricted in the GnuCash flatpak.
More details: FlatHub GnuCash issue 17
Granting Access to Other Resources
Each flatpak is a sandbox. To allow it e.g. access to your USB drive, executesudo flatpak override org.gnucash.GnuCash --filesystem=<path-to-your-usb>
Changing the Locale
Refer to Locale Settings to determine the settings required.
Refer to Configuration Locations - System-wide for instructions on how to change Flatpak environment variables using flatpak override.
Crash: Stacktrace
$ flatpak-coredumpctl --help
usage: Debug in gdb an application that crashed inside flatpak. It uses (and thus requires) coredumpctl to retrieve the coredump file.
[-h] [-b BUILD_DIRECTORY] [--extra-flatpak-args EXTRA_FLATPAK_ARGS] [-m [COREDUMPCTL_MATCHES]]
[--gdb-arguments GDB_ARGUMENTS]
[app]
positional arguments:
app The flatpak application to use. eg. `org.gnome.Epiphany//3.28`.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-b BUILD_DIRECTORY, --build-directory BUILD_DIRECTORY
The build directory to use. It allows you to retrieve a coredump for applications being built
--extra-flatpak-args EXTRA_FLATPAK_ARGS
Extra argument to pass to flatpak
-m [COREDUMPCTL_MATCHES], --coredumpctl-matches [COREDUMPCTL_MATCHES]
Coredumpctl matches, see `man coredumpctl` for more information.
--gdb-arguments GDB_ARGUMENTS
Arguments to pass to gdb.
For other debug options see Debugging.
GTK Inspector
flatpak run --env=GTK_DEBUG=interactive org.gnucash.GnuCash
Other
- Migration from normal package to flatpak (german)