Re: [GNC] gnucash 5.3 compile errors

2023-06-29 Thread John Griessen
On 6/28/23 22:24, john wrote: I don't see the boost checks in you CMake output and the error is complaining that it can't find boost filesystem. Make sure that's installed by your package manager, remove any existing installed gnucash so that the linker doesn't get confused, and start from an

[GNC] gnucash 5.3 compile errors

2023-06-28 Thread John Griessen
I'm having trouble with compile on my laptop even though the desktop compiles fine. It must be a dependency problem. I've followed the instructions, https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_On_Linux, to the letter. Following are symptom error messages, then a copy of the output during the cmake

Re: [GNC] How to search for a word in a description in an invoice

2023-06-27 Thread John Griessen
lved in creating a key binding like f such that the description, notes or memo pulldown is already set? -- John Griessen industromatic.com Albuquerque NM ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription prefer

Re: [GNC] gnucash 5.0, 5.1 register color settings don't save [solved]

2023-06-08 Thread John Griessen
I found the reason. export XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/local/share:/usr/share" was needed in my .bash_profile since my gnucash compiled install was in /usr/local. without it dconf had problems. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update

Re: [GNC] gnucash 5.0 register color settings don't save

2023-06-08 Thread John Griessen
On 4/3/23 14:31, Adrien Monteleone wrote: I'd check the Wiki about obtaining a Tracefile. (and/or run GnuCash from the command line to watch output) Then attempt changing a preference and see if any messages appear in either that might indicate what is happening. Regards, Adrien I'm looking

[GNC] How to search for a word in a description in an invoice

2023-06-07 Thread John Griessen
I search for purchases that have a description with an inventory tag in it frequently to check that I've done all bookkeeping steps when I make a sale. How do I find a description with an inventory tag when I sell that same item in an invoice? When I start a search from accounts assets for inv

[GNC] libboost problem compiling gnucash 5.0

2023-04-11 Thread John Griessen
cache/gnucash/report/html-acct-table.go] Error 127 make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:8271: gnucash/report/CMakeFiles/scm-report-1.dir/all] Error 2 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs ==

Re: [GNC] gnucash 5.0 register color settings don't save

2023-04-03 Thread John Griessen
On 4/3/23 14:06, Vincent Dawans wrote: In my case, I installed dconf-editor (it wasn't installed by default) and then after running it, I did a search on "alternate". It returns the setting in 2 locations. Only the second one is correct for version 5.0, the first one was for older versions prior

Re: [GNC] gnucash 5.0 register color settings don't save

2023-04-03 Thread John Griessen
On 4/3/23 13:44, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Are other preferences saved? I think there was a bug a while back about this being an issue in some cases on Linux. It had to do with Gsettings and file locations Nope. All check boxes are empty and cannot be checked and saved. The flatpak is at 5.0

Re: [GNC] gnucash 5.0 register color settings don't save

2023-04-03 Thread John Griessen
On 4/3/23 13:44, John Griessen wrote: Thanks Vincent.  My appearance is just like your screenshot.  Except I can't save any check boxes on close. They are gone on open again. I compiled in a build dir to the side of the source dir. cd gnucash-5.0-build cmake -GNinja -DCMAKE_INSTALL_P

Re: [GNC] gnucash 5.0 register color settings don't save

2023-04-03 Thread John Griessen
On 4/3/23 13:11, Vincent Dawans wrote: For me, there is a "Close" button on the dialog at the bottom right that saves the changes, same as in version 4.13. Thanks Vincent. My appearance is just like your screenshot. Except I can't save any check boxes on close. They are gone on open again.

Re: [GNC] searching for inventory tags -- bind keys -- best ways

2022-12-05 Thread John Griessen
On 12/4/22 22:27, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Any changes you make otherwise might cause havoc. Changes to memo lines will cause havoc? Why -- no numbers in transactions are changed by memo lines. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

[GNC] searching for inventory tags -- bind keys -- best ways

2022-12-04 Thread John Griessen
I buy and sell things, tracking the cost of goods sold, and each item or quantity of identical items gets an alphanumeric tag Like CCB, CCD, CCD, etc. After I make a sale with an invoice I sometimes do several more sales, then expense cost of goods sold for all of them. I put the inventory tag

[GNC] compiled 4.12 get white background instead of green ruled. Also printable invoice is shown small scale.

2022-11-14 Thread John Griessen
This was compiled from the 4.12 tar.bz2 after checking the sha256sum on linux mint 21 with guile 3.0. I tried this compiling since the 4.12 flatpak is not showing printable invoice at all after a mint update. I ran ninja check and all passed. Any ideas on missing dependencies or bugs in libra

[GNC] edit --> find --> description contains fails to show accounts receivable items

2022-06-07 Thread John Griessen
Is this a feature, or a bug? When I select assets then do a find search, I can find an item, "cart, poly strapping", being bought, and the cost of goods sold entry when it leaves inventory, but the AR account is also a sub account of assets and has the description on the invoice line item and t

Re: [GNC] Configuration dilemma -- How best to share Gnucash? between 2 users

2022-05-10 Thread John Griessen
On 5/10/22 14:16, John Griessen wrote: Ah so.  Then probably the OP *can* avoid 2 installs of gnucash.  It would maybe look like this to launch gnucash from a shared dir on a LAN: $ /shared/gnucash4.10/gnucash   /shared/books1/books1.gnucash The work of putting the executable in a nonstandard

Re: [GNC] Configuration dilemma -- How best to share Gnucash? between 2 users

2022-05-10 Thread John Griessen
aunch gnucash from a shared dir on a LAN: $ /shared/gnucash4.10/gnucash /shared/books1/books1.gnucash The work of putting the executable in a nonstandard place might be more than just using two installs and making them be the same version. -- John Gri

Re: [GNC] Configuration dilemma -- How best to share Gnucash between 2 users

2022-05-10 Thread John Griessen
ile saved in a dir called logs to reconstruct lost data entering from. John Griessen ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user I

Re: [GNC] Configuration dilemma -- How best to share Gnucash between 2 users

2022-05-10 Thread John Griessen
On 5/9/22 10:57, Westshire Realty wrote: Prefer to avoid maintaining two separate apps intalled on devices and sharing just the data file. I'm not aware that gnucash can run remotely without you making a way via programs like vnc or xwindows, which sounds like extra work on a mac. It's easy

Re: [GNC] Configuration dilemma -- How best to share Gnucash between 2 users

2022-05-10 Thread John Griessen
On 5/9/22 11:07, Derek Atkins wrote: The main gotcha is that only one person can have the data file open at a time. This means you will need to coordinate "who is running GnuCash" at any particular moment. I use gnucash on two linux machines with a sync program called unison keeping the data

Re: [GNC] building gnucash on ubuntu 20.04

2021-12-19 Thread John Griessen
On 12/17/21 09:45, John Griessen wrote: will get the 4.8 tag from git and try it. I tried 4.8 and got an instant segfault, so I tried 4.8a. That gave odd GUI differences -- no colored bands for lines and that was so disorienting I went back to the minor bugs in the flatpak GnuCash

[GNC] building gnucash on ubuntu 20.04

2021-12-16 Thread John Griessen
I've been using flatpak 4.8-1 on ubuntu, but it has some glitches in the GUI selection of check boxes on an invoice such as taxable, tax included, tax table. To get those to be changed takes mousing and clicking several places in the line item or it just reverts when I go to the next line.

[GNC] any way to make a report of assets?

2021-12-13 Thread John Griessen
I have equipment assets that are in categories and have contra accounts for depreciating them. Has anyone figured a method to generate a list of assets? I've not seen any way to automate this, so am considering making a spreadsheet of them after giving each one a tag that is entered in each

[GNC] gnucash 4.5, head window height can't be decreased enough to fit my screen

2021-06-12 Thread John Griessen
atest in branch maint. Anyone else seen this? -- John Griessen industromatic.com Albuquerque NM building lab gear for biologists ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:

Re: [GNC] import export of transactions

2020-01-15 Thread John Griessen
On 1/15/20 1:27 PM, John Griessen wrote: What delimiter to use? semicolon worked where comma failed. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman

[GNC] import export of transactions

2020-01-15 Thread John Griessen
What delimiter to use? I try comma and get that it can't parse, please add a date column, but I see no place to add that on the form... ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: ht

Re: [GNC] Bar chart reports

2019-07-26 Thread John Griessen
On 7/26/19 10:42 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: The quickest path to a custom chart is to run the report to get the data you want, and then copy/paste to a spreadsheet and use the charting features there. I think most if not all charts in GnuCash have an option to include a data table that you c

[GNC] Bar chart reports

2019-07-26 Thread John Griessen
Does anyone have a readable bar chart report to share? The default puts the legend in tiny type, and the dates along the bottom of the page instead of next to the bottom of the bars of the chart. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org T

Re: [GNC] Getting previous reconciliation closing balances?

2019-07-10 Thread John Griessen
On 7/9/19 8:41 AM, Adam Funk wrote: Hi, The problem is that I can't figure out what the missing transaction is! I was hoping to be able to pin it down to one previous statement. What I do when old reconciles get affected by new entries/deletions is look for a previous balance that aligns wit

Re: [GNC] best accounting practice for refund

2019-07-03 Thread John Griessen
On 6/26/19 8:51 PM, Eric Rathhaus (general) via gnucash-user wrote: In the past I created a credit note under the special job and sent my client a check. This year they want me to use the credit to offset invoices for subsequent work. I like the idea of creating a credit note under the specia

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Debian package

2019-02-08 Thread John Griessen
On 1/22/19 9:34 AM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: Looks like the dependency list from the mainline is missing a few entries.  I'll check that out. I tested the package python3-gnucash_3.4-45-~0_amd64.deb and could not install with debian testing: python3-gnucash depends on python3 (<< 3.7); however

Re: [GNC] compiling 3.3

2018-11-18 Thread John Griessen
On 11/17/18 7:24 PM, John Ralls wrote: ;;; WARNING: loading compiled file/home/john/.local/gnucash-3.3/lib/gnucash/scm/ccache/2.0/gnucash/report/standard-reports/account-piecharts.go failed: ;;; ERROR: In procedure make_objcode_from_file: bad header on object file: "\x7fELF\x02\x01\x01ÿ\x00\x0

Re: [GNC] compiling 3.3

2018-11-17 Thread John Griessen
On 11/17/18 5:50 PM, John Ralls wrote: not enough of the error block to show what object file has a bad header. This is an excerpt of the message stream for every startup of: /home/john/.local/gnucash-3.3/bin/gnucash ;;; WARNING: loading compiled file /home/john/.local/gnucash-3.3/lib/gnucas

Re: [GNC] compiling 3.3

2018-11-17 Thread John Griessen
I used this cmake line cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/john/.local/gnucash-3.3 /mosource/gnucash make sudo make install and get a complete compile, but many many error messages during first run of /home/john/.local/gnucash-3.3/bin/gnucash . The errors are all similar to this one: ERROR: I

[GNC] compiling 3.3

2018-11-17 Thread John Griessen
I'm using hints such as Do sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/gnucash sudo rm -f /usr/local/lib/libgnc* clean your build directory and try again. I get a completion of make ending like this: Scanning dependencies of target scm-test-load-report-gnome-module Scanning dependencies of target scm-test-l

Re: [GNC] gnucash says gnc_build_userdata_path() isn’t available.

2018-11-14 Thread John Griessen
On 11/13/18 6:23 PM, John Ralls wrote: Did you clear out all vestiges of the Jessie-provided GnuCash I did search and destroy, but seems I missed something... Any suggestions for using similar to: find /usr -name '*gnucash*' find /lib -name '*gncmod*' find /lib -name '*gnucash*' find /usr

[GNC] debian seems be missing file in amd64 gnucash package

2018-11-13 Thread John Griessen
I tried using apt install: sudo apt install -t sid libboost-regex1.62.0 sudo apt install -t sid gnucash gnucash-common gnucash-docs python3-gnucash and I just get this error: gnucash: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gnucash/gnucash/libgncmod-app-utils.so: undefined symbol: gnc_b

[GNC] debian gnucash problem finding libgncmod-ledger-core.so

2018-09-27 Thread John Griessen
when I run debian packaged gnucash 1:2.6.15-1 I get this error message: gnucash: error while loading shared libraries: libgncmod-ledger-core.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory There is a file here: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gnucash/gnucash/libgncmod-ledger-core.so

[GNC] cannot export invoice with my custom stylesheet and a return, (negative entry line item), but works with default stylesheet

2018-09-07 Thread John Griessen
What could be wrong? I've noticed that with 2.6.15 there are .go files for invoices instead of scheme files, and I've forgotten where to change things, but they seem to have moved... Some of the old .scm definitions seem to be working since the custom invoice still works part of the time...

Re: [GNC] compiling 3.2 stops at core-utils.go ( non-urgent -- can use debian package 2.6.15-1

2018-09-04 Thread John Griessen
On 09/02/2018 10:40 AM, Colin Law wrote: Don't try and install to the source or build directory, if that is what you are trying to do. No, they were not the same dir. This is not urgent now, but a mystery. I have started using 2.6.15-1 gnucash successfully, so not urgent. Today I also tried f

Re: [GNC] trouble compiling 3.2 release o rusing debian packages newer than 2.6.14-1

2018-09-02 Thread John Griessen
On 09/02/2018 06:57 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: The most likely cause is your build is picking the wrong version of libgncmod- app-utils.so (which is also generated as part of the build itself). OK, I started from the tarball, used a separate dir to build in. uninstalled old gnucash: sudo apt pu

[GNC] trouble compiling 3.2 release

2018-09-01 Thread John Griessen
I followed the directions for debian somehwat. I made a separate build directory, copied some of the files from gnucash-3.2/build to it, then did: cd gnucash3.2-build cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/gnucash ../gnucash-3.2 make and get this result: Scanning dependencies of target scm-co

Re: [GNC] compile stops at core-utils.go

2018-07-16 Thread John Griessen
On 07/14/2018 03:47 PM, Colin Law wrote: Are you aware of the build instructions at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/BuildUbuntu16.04, which should work for Debian I think. Followed those, same result: [ 32%] Linking C shared library ../../lib/gnucash/libgncmod-app-utils.so [ 32%] Built target

Re: [GNC] gnucash on debian problem

2018-07-14 Thread John Griessen
-core.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory So now I get another error. Might be easier to figure out... Thanks, -- John Griessen industromatic.com Austin TX building lab gear for biologists ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash

Re: [GNC] compile stops at core-utils.go

2018-07-14 Thread John Griessen
I tried purging and reinstalling: sudo apt remove guile-2.0-dev sudo apt purge guile-2.0 guile-2.0-libs:amd64 tried running 3.2 debian package and no go -- needs guile2.0 sudo apt install guile-2.0-dev guile-2.0-libs:amd64 So having guile 2.0 and 2.2 both installed must not be a problem for co

Re: [GNC] compile stops at core-utils.go

2018-07-14 Thread John Griessen
On 07/14/2018 03:07 AM, Colin Law wrote: On 14 July 2018 at 01:25, John Griessen mailto:j...@industromatic.com>> wrote:  Generating ../../lib/gnucash/scm/ccache/2.0/gnucash/core-utils.go Backtrace: I think you need to tell us what version you are trying to build, what you s

Re: [GNC] gnucash on debian problem

2018-07-14 Thread John Griessen
On 07/14/2018 01:49 AM, Colin Law wrote: Attempt to start gnucash: gnucash: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gnucash/gnucash/libgncmod-app-utils.so: undefined symbol: gnc_build_userdata_path Oh, you said the attempted upgrade failed. So after upgrading you get that

Re: [GNC] gnucash on debian problem

2018-07-13 Thread John Griessen
On 07/10/2018 01:13 AM, Colin Law wrote: In what way does it fail? Colin Attempt to start gnucash: gnucash: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gnucash/gnucash/libgncmod-app-utils.so: undefined symbol: gnc_build_userdata_path ___ gnuca

[GNC] compile stops at core-utils.go

2018-07-13 Thread John Griessen
ls.go] Error 1 CMakeFiles/Makefile2:3861: recipe for target 'libgnucash/core-utils/CMakeFiles/scm-core-utils.dir/all' failed make[1]: *** [libgnucash/core-utils/CMakeFiles/scm-core-utils.dir/all] Error 2 Makefile:162: recipe for target 'all' failed make: *** [all] Error 2 -- John

[GNC] gnucash on debian problem

2018-07-09 Thread John Griessen
Every time I try to upgrade from gnucash 1:2.6.14-1 AMD64 to more recent on debian it fails. Is there a work around or do I need to compile from scratch to use on debian now? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To u

Re: Unable to create liability account under expense account

2017-11-25 Thread John Griessen
an asset transfer from asset account to asset account. -- John Griessen industromatic.com Austin TX building lab gear for biologists ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user

gnucash update on debian errors, then stops

2017-08-01 Thread John Griessen
I have not been able to upgrade gnucash for a while now. Will there be a usable gnucash in the next debian release? If not, why not? I still use this version on debian stretch/testing/frozen, soon to be the new released debian stable: sudo apt-get purge gnucash-docs gnucash-common gnucash sud

gnucash debian packages

2017-05-23 Thread John Griessen
gnucash (1:2.6.16-1) is in experimental. Is this good to try? I've been staying back on 2.6.14 because 2.6.15 does not work on debian stretch. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-us