One of the things I like about MX Linux is the MX Applications
updater/installer: it is relatively simple to pick and choose between
standard Buster, backports and Flatpak versions, all in one place. The most
recent Gnucash is available there as a Flatpak. From then on, all updates
are handled by t
Thank you Richard, I had a look at that.
The one color I have problems with is the text labeling an empty field's
contents: typically, the labels Num, Action and Notes. The default I see now
with Arc-Dark is light grey text on a light blue background, which is low
contrast.
I don't see where I c
I'd given up on 'dark mode' registers in Gnucash some time ago. It was
difficult to read and I resigned myself to setting 'Use Gnucash built in
color theme' in Preferences>Register. Otherwise I use the Arc Dark theme
system-wide in Debian Bullseye.
But I was pleasantly surprised to discover that d
FYI, I have successfully used EncFS and Cryptomator to store encrypted
Gnucash data on a Dropbox-like sync service.
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I have imported thousands of entries in CSV format--years of
transactions--and found it helpful to split the original CSV into multiple
parts (in my case, by year), saving the gnucash file after each import.
For the very first import of a new bank account, I use a CSV with only three
months of dat
And if you buy it from Packt you can download it in a useful range of
formats, DRM free
https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/gnucash-24-small-business-accounting-beginners-guide
It was on offer in ebook much less recently.
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As I noted recently on this list, I still find the Ramachandran book useful,
even with the latest version of Gnucash. I like it, and found it useful. It
is quite helpful about how to do ordinary everyday business things using
Gnucash. It has tips, and some good advice. For example, he says it is gr
On Debian 10 I am testing the latest flatpak installation. It works, but I
don't see my saved reports now.
I was previously syncing the directory *~/.local/share/gnucash* between
installations by putting an alias there that pointed to a dropbox-like
folder that was synced between machines and oper
Just to note, even though you have archived the data file at a given point in
time, you may lose access to any Saved Reports in future if you no longer
keep the same .gnucash folder or if you delete any reports from the
currently-running version of Gnucash.
In other words, reports are stored sepa
You can show the 'file path' of a Gnucash file, that is the location on your
hard drive directory structure, if it is one of the 'recently opened' ones
listed under the main File menu. First, in View menu, make sure you have
selected to show the Status Bar (this bar appears right at the bottom, bel
Greg: you can search for your own, and other people's, old messages on the
Nabble web site of the Gnucash mailing list. For example this message thread
is posted on this page, where you will find a search box. There are ways to
filter out just your own messages, too, there.
http://gnucash.1415818.n
Postscript: I was missing the Help and Concepts Guide, which I solved as
follows:
It took me several attempts, following instructions I found in INSTALL, READ
ME and elsewhere. In the end, I believe this is the part of what I did which
actually worked:
1. Download gnucash-docs from
https://source
Thanks for the explanation, David. I think I may have been a bit over-zealous
in my sudo use at the first stages of the procedure; that is perhaps what
caused the permissions issue when I did not 'sudo' later on.
I also run Gnucash inside Debian Buster virtual machines on both my Mac and
Windows m
I eventually succeeded in building and installing Gnucash v3.8 on Debian
Buster
I installed to /usr/local because David had success with that.
Not sure what I did to make it work, but it could have been any of the
following:
- used 'sudo' before cmake, make and make install commands; otherwise ha
I'm attempting to build v 3.8 on Debian (Linux) Buster, using the
instructions on 'Building on Linux' and--as far as I can understand--a side
page on installing dependencies. I've run into an error on execution of the
'make' command that I do not understand. Can anyone please suggest a
remedy?:
[
Finbar, I think the Gnucash developers do their due diligence in testing but
some things don't appear until a wider group start to use the new version.
If you depend on Gnucash, and you are using MacOS, I suggest you clone your
drive with SuperDuper! or similar software before installing a new Gn
If I build it myself on Debian Buster--using instructions in the Gnucash
Wiki, 'Build for Linux'--will it solve the dependency issues for me?
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I may have posted too soon without testing the debian packages for v3.8.
Installation from the v3.8 .deb files I gave the URL for failed for me on
Debian Buster when installing using apt (and individually using gdebi, with
similar dependency issues). I uninstalled v3.7 first.
Here is a transcript
Someone helpfully placed .deb packages for Gnucash 3.8 here (today):
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnucash/
There are old postings on the mail list that explain how to use these.
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Concerning PDF output, I am using Print then 'Print to File' with PDF chosen
(not Postscript or SVG).
I find I have to tinker with Page Setup and the Gnucash onscreen window
size/shape to create a graph that fits nicely on a single page PDF (this is
an Expenses bar chart). I normally run Gnucash a
Christopher: Thanks, I confirm your method of making a Firefox webpage
creates an HTML version that works across platforms, at least from Linux to
MacOS.
This could be useful if you really want HTML, but Firefox stores the
javascript code in a folder that is 772 kB, compared to about 8 kB for the
Bug report filed here
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797537
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Let me try again to post the MacOS-specific code in the HTML chart report,
which references the specific installation path of Gnucash on MacOS:
Because of punctuation this was not visible in my previous post.
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I think the user needs to know:
1. that the HTML Chart is platform specific
2. that the chart will only display if GnuCash is installed
3. that because of the above, the file is not suitable for 'archival'
storage of the chart and that PDF would be better suited to that purpose.
I found the char
OK, thanks, I understand the problem now.
As confirmation, when I open the Mac-generated HTML report on Linux and look
at the code I find this line:
That file path explicitly refers to a Mac-specific location for Gnucash and
its contents. It clearly won't work on Linux.
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Thank you for testing.
Because I sync my GnuCash prefs folder, I can open the same chart report in
the same GnuCash file from Saved Configurations within GnuCash on MacOS,
Linux and Windows. The chart (an expenses bar chart) displays properly
within Gnucash on all three platforms.
The HTML chart
HTML exports of charts (reports) can open and display satisfactorily in any
browser on Linux, but they are blank on MacOS or Windows.
On a MacOS or Windows browser, the chart area is blank (white). Any
accompanying text table underneath the chart displays as expected, below the
blank area.
Text-o
Thanks. I will file a bug report.
The report in question is 'Profit & Loss'. I could see in the text of the
Saved Reports code that my various instances of this appeared to refer to
the same template they were built on:
based on template "8758ba23984c40dea5527f5f0ca2779e"
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Unexpected currency change in a report between two copies of Gnucash on
different machines
Conclusion
If you keep books in multiple currencies, make reports in multiple
currencies, and also sync your preferences folder (and hence your saved
reports) between machines, then you should probably ma
In the end I could not import either CSV or OFX/QFX from one currency to
another in Gnucash. I have since given up the goal of a single 'worldwide'
Gnucash file, choosing instead to run two (in my case) national files, one
based in each currency. That way, OFX imports work well, and scheduling,
bud
I have "Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting: Beginner's Guide" by Ashok
Ramachandran, and I just wanted to let other new Gnucash users know
that--for me at least--this book is still very helpful in learning to use
the more advanced features of the program, even with Gnucash v3.7.
If you follow
Forgot to say this is on Debian Buster (10) and Gnucash 3.7.
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In a register window, every click of my mouse scrollwheel jumps an integral
number of transactions on the screen.
I don't know if it is just me, but I find with this effect that it is almost
impossible for me to tell whether I am scrolling up or down. I need to refer
to the 'handle' on the side o
Thanks to Yoman and David. This seems to be a difficult problem to fix.
Just to clarify the need for this: if you trade and/or live in two different
countries, you need to be able to report worldwide income/expenses in both
currencies.
Ideally, to do this, the user could:
- import CSV in either
I successfully used these Disco .deb files to install Gnucash 3.7 into Debian
Stable (Buster), after first uninstalling previous versions of the three
files.
I followed Stephen's original instructions. Thank you!
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Just checking: am I correct in expecting Gnucash 3.5 to have the same problem
with multiple-currency CSV data as Gnucash 3.4?
The origina bug report is here:
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796955
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I successfully used the Disco .deb files to install GnuCash-3.5 into Debian
Testing (Buster) using the instructions in Stephen's first post above:
> sudo apt remove gnucash gnucash-common python3-gnucash
> sudo apt autoremove
> sudo apt install ./*3.5*.deb
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I would prefer to wait until my distribution updates to 3.5 (have had
problems trying to build from source in the past). Debian testing is already
on 3.4, so it is hopefully just a matter of time.
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And if I uninstall old gnucash first (as described in an older message above)
then try to install the three items separately, I get the same errors about
libboost and libpython dependencies.
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Thank you, I appreciate your work on this.
I am on Debian Buster (testing) with current updates applied.
When I try to install 3.5 from your files with apt, it fails, with the
following messages:
boldstripe@thinkpad-debian:~/Downloads/gnucash_3.5$ ls
gnucash_3.5_amd64.deb gnucash
Are the Debian 3.5 packages available now? The link above is for the 3.4
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With the current CSV Importer interface, it is not immediately clear to me
what exchange rate would be used for the conversion of an individual
imported transaction to the base currency.
My first assumption would be that the imported values are simply numbers and
assume the currency of the accoun
I have added my report to the bug report about the single line CSV issue
(above).
Converting my CSV files to a two-line format is probably more than I can do,
but I will look at it.
My workaround for now is to pre-convert the currency to my base currency in
a spreadsheet program, adding an extra
And is my problem the same as this Bug 796955 already reported?
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796955
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Is it me, or does the CSV importer fail to import a foreign-currency
transaction file to a foreign-currency bank account with the exchange-rate
conversion properly respected?
Multiple currency accounting works for manual entries, but imports from CSVs
show the same (ie unconverted) number on both
I am running Gnucash 3.3 on Debian Buster (testing). My 'notes to self':
*Installing recent version on Debian:*
According to ...
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Debian
... try to find latest amd64 'deb' version in Debian Archive at this URL:
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnucash/
Use
I can now use Gnucash reports on my Linux machine that I made on my Mac,
because I symlinked each machine's prefs folder (the whole thing) to a
common folder on pCloud Sync (a sync service like Dropbox).
What could possibly go wrong? :-)
The Gnucash file itself is also syncing (by the same servic
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