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This simple tutorial shows how to install GnuCash, the personal and small-business financial-accounting software, in all current Ubuntu releases including Ubuntu 24.10, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 20.04
GnuCash is available in Ubuntu repository, but old. For the latest release, you may install it via either Flatpak package or an Ubuntu PPA.
At the moment of writing, the latest version is GnuCash 5.11, and the changes are available in this page.
Free accounting software GnuCash 3.4 was released a few days ago with tons of bug-fixes and improvements. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10.
According to the release note, GnuCash 3.4 redesigned gnc-uri-utils, cleaned up more report code, improved toolbar buttons, text options widget, and fixed a large number of bugs.
While GnuCash flatpak package is still at version 3.2, you can install the latest 3.4 release via an unofficial PPA for Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 18.10.
1. Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut key. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sicklylife/gnucash
Type user password (no asterisks feedback) for sudo prompts and hit Enter.
2. Then either upgrade GnuCash via Software Updater, or install it via command:
sudo apt install gnucash
To remove GnuCash 3.4, run command in terminal:
sudo apt remove --autoremove gnucash
And remove the PPA via Software & Updates -> Other Software.
The nineteenth maintenance release of GnuCash 2.6 stable series was announced 2 days ago. Here’s how to install it in all current Ubuntu releases.
Bugs fixed in GnuCash 2.6.19:
For Ubuntu 16.04 and higher, GnuCash now is available as Snap package (run in sandbox).
Simply search for and install it from Ubuntu Software (need login with Ubuntu One account).
Or open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to install the snap:
snap install gnucash-jz
The snapped package co-exists with traditional application. To remove it, run command:
sudo snap remove gnucash-jz
For those who prefer traditional packages, you can install GnuCash 2.6.19 from the unofficial PPA, since the getdeb repository has not been updated for a period of time.
1. Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T and run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/gnucash
Input your password (no visual feedback) when it prompts. Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and Ubuntu 18.04 are supported.
2. Then upgrade the software from an existing release via Software Updater:
or simply run commands one by one in terminal:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gnucash
Uninstall:
To remove the financial-accounting software, open terminal and run command:
sudo apt-get remove --autoremove gnucash
And remove the PPA via Software & Updates utility under ‘Other Software’ tab.
The latest stable release of GnuCash, a personal and small-business financial-accounting software now is at version 2.6.x, announced on 29th Dec 2013.
New Features:
Preferences have been migrated from GConf to GSettings. This is a simpler and more robust backend which writes to the OS’s native prefs — defaults on OS X and the Registry on MSWindows — and allows us to remove several troublesome dependencies including GConf, ORBit, and DBus. The change includes a migration script that will run at Gnucash startup.
New date handling which allows GnuCash to use dates after March 2038.
Guile-2 compatibility: GnuCash now requires either Guile-1.8 or Guile-2.0 Documents outside of GnuCash, images of receipts for example, can now be linked to transactions, with the facility of opening them in the default application for the document type.
Cutsom Reports can now be saved without renaming the report, and modifications can overwrite an existing report.
The import assistant now finishes much more quickly after assigning contra-accounts.
GnuCash now requires Gtk+-2.24.0 and GLib-2.26.0. Most of the dependencies on obsolete libraries have been removed; only libgnomecanvas remains. Unfortunately the effort to rewrite the register code to use GtkTreeModel wasn’t completed in time, so GnuCash is not on the cusp of converting to Gtk3.
The Business Module has been substantially revamped, including support for Credit Notes and import of customers and vendors from a CSV file.
The Num field in the register display is now optionally per-split, so for example a check number can be entered for the checking account split and an invoice number for the expense account split.
GnuCash can now open locked books read-only so that more than one user can view a file. GnuCash still does not support multiple simultaneous writers.
By agreement of all authors, GnuCash is now licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later rather than simply Version 2. This allows derivative works to be licensed under the GPL Version 3 if the author of such a work so desires.
Bug fixes since 2.5.10:
Other Changes:
Source Code and Windows EXE file are available in sf download page.
For Ubuntu users, build GnuCash 2.6 from source or wait for Canonical updating the universe repository.
