You don't need to settle for an old version of GnuCash

If you've tried installing GnuCash on your Ubuntu system you may have been disappointed to find out that the software repository only has an older version of GnuCash. When I tried installing GnuCash, I found that the version GnuCash available from the software repositories was only 2.6.19, but the most recent version of GnuCash indicated by the official GnuCash web site was version 3.5.

Luckily, there is an easy way to get the recent version of GnuCash on your Ubuntu system.

Remove the old version of GnuCash

First, if you installed GnuCash from the official Ubuntu repository, you should remove it with the following command:

sudo apt remove --autoremove gnucash

Install the recent version of GnuCash from PPA

Run the following two command that will add the PPA for GnuCash and update the APT package index:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sicklylife/gnucash

Then run the normal command to install GnuCash:

sudo apt install gnucash