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README
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README
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The version 1.3.x series of GnuCash are experimental development
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releases. They may or may not work. Use at your own risk.
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The last stable, production version was gnucash-1.2.5 The next stable,
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production version will be gnucash-1.4.x
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The last stable, production version was gnucash-1.2.5.
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The next stable, production version will be gnucash-1.4.x
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###########################################################################
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Table of Contents:
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- Overview
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- Upgrading from 1.2.x
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- Dependencies
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- Invocation/running
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- Internationalization
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- Other Tools
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- Building and Installing
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- Supported OSes
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- Additional Download Sites
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can use GnuCash. Type directly into the register,
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tab between fields, and use quick-fill to
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automatically complete the transaction.
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The interface is customizable from within the
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application itself (no editing config files :) )
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- Quicken File Import: Import Quicken QIF style files.
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QIF files are automatically merged to eliminate
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duplicate transactions.
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- Reconcile window with running reconciled
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and cleared balances makes reconciliation easy.
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- Stock/Mutual Fund Portfolios: Track stocks
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individually (one per account) or in portfolio
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of accounts (a group of accounts that can be
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displayed together).
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- Get Stock & Mutual Fund quotes from various web sites,
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update portfolio automatically (more funds being added
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regularly).
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- Reports: Display Balance Sheet, Profit&Loss, Portfolio
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Valuation, Transaction Reports, or account balance tracking,
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or export them as HTML. You can write your own custom
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report if you know a little Scheme. Reports can now be performed
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over an accounting period!
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- Multiple Currencies & Currency Trading: Multiple
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currencies are supported and can be bought and
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sold (traded). Currency movements between accounts
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are fully balanced when double-entry is enabled.
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(Some aspects of multiple currency support are not
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fully implemented.)
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- Quicken File Import: Import Quicken QIF style files.
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QIF files are automatically merged to eliminate
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duplicate transactions.
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- Reports: Display Balance Sheet, Profit&Loss, Portfolio
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Valuation, or print them as HTML.
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- Chart of Accounts: A master account can have a hierarchy
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of detail accounts underneath it. This allows similar
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account types (e.g. Cash, Bank, Stock) to be grouped
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- Provides a byte-stream format, which allows accounts and
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account groups to be transmitted to other processes
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via pipes or sockets.
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- Get Stock & Mutual Fund quotes from various web sites,
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update portfolio automatically (more funds being added
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regularly).
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- European date handling, French, German, Swedish, and Great
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Britain translations.
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Home Page:
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http://gnucash.org/
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Original X-Accountant home page:
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http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~rclark/xacc
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Precompiled binaries:
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http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/redhat-6.x/1.2.5/
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http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/
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Development versions:
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http://www.gnucash.org/source_code.php3
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====================
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Upgrading from 1.2.x
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--------------------
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There are many, many changes from the 1.2 series - have a look at the
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NEWS file if you want more details. However, the most crucial ones
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for installation are that GnuCash now requires the Gnome libraries
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instead of Motif, and guile is required. See the "dependancies"
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section of this file for more detail. The file format hasn't changed
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(but make a backup of your data anyway . . . )
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We hope you enjoy all the new features!
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============
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Dependencies
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------------
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Only the 1.2.5 Motif version of GnuCash is currently stable. The Gnome
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version is a development version, but will soon be stable enough for
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regular use. Development of the Motif version has ceased and has
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recently been removed from CVS. Older versions may be retrieved from
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CVS should someone want to resume the work. The next stable release
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will be a full Gnome version, but will only require that you have the
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Gnome libraries available, not that you be running a Gnome desktop.
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The following packages are required to be installed to run gnucash:
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guile: provides main extension language infrastructure, used
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or sources at
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http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html
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If you wish to use the Balance Tracker report and get nifty charts,
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you will need to install:
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gnuplot: A plotting program.
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RPM's and debs available from the distributors
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You can get the source from:
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http://www.gnuplot.vt.edu/
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=======
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Running
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de_CH
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===========
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Other Tools
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-----------
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A tool to generate (ascii) reports from gnucash/xacc files can be found
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at http://www.zeta.org.au/~grahamc/xacc_rpts.html.
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=====================
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Building & Installing
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---------------------
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SWIG: Used to autogenerate perl wrappers - available at www.swig.org
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need 1.1p5 or later ...
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g-wrap: RPM's, debs, and source available at
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ftp://ftp.gnucash.org/pub/g-wrap.
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GnuCash understands a few non-standard ./configure options. You
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should run ./configure --help for the most up to date summary of the
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supported options, but here are some more detailed descriptions of
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Both of these have been removed from the source tree during the
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process of migrating to automake, but anyone who is interested in
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resurrecting these bits can easily retrieve them from CVS.
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The Gnome version is receiving all of the current development effort,
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and will be the next stable release. Note that although the next
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stable release will have a Gnome user interface, it will not require
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that you be running a Gnome desktop, just that you have the Gnome
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libraries available, an important distinction.
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Although the Gnome version is being actively developed, we cannot say
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for sure that it has reached the stability level of the 1.2.5 Motif
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version. It certainly has has more features, and has worked well for
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many, but right now the older 1.2.5 Motif version is the official
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stable version, and has had more thorough testing.
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Note that while you need the Gnome libraries installed, you don't
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need to have a Gnome desktop.
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Runtime and install destinations are separate. The --prefix you
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specify to configure determines where the resulting binary will look
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==============
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Supported OS's
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GnuCash version 1.2.x is known to work in the following configs:
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GNU/Linux -- Intel
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FreeBSD -- Intel
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OpenBSD -- Intel
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GnuCash 1.3.x is known to work with the following operating systems:
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Xacc-1.0.18, the predecessor to GnuCash, is known to work on these additional
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platforms:
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GNU/Linux -- x86 & Alpha
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Solaris -- Sparc
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FreeBSD -- x86
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It probably works with the following :
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OpenBSD -- x86 (needs to be confirmed one way or another)
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Previous versions have been known to work on the following platforms, but
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their current status is unknown:
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Slackware 3.4 -- Intel w/ Mootif (OSF Motif 2.0.1)
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SGI IRIX -- MIPS
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IBM AIX 4.1.5 -- RS/6000 http://www-frec.bull.com/
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Unixware 7 -- Intel
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SCO OpenServer 5.0.4 -- Intel
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Solaris -- Sparc
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See ftp://ftp.gnucash.org/pub/xacc (high-bandwidth)
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or http://linas.org/linux/gnucash (slow-www )
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for precompiled binaries for these platforms
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for precompiled (but *very old*) binaries for these platforms
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Gnucash can probably be made to work with most POSIX-ish platforms,
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provided the libraries and toolchain are available.
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=========================
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Additional Download Sites
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Precompiled binaries & pre-requisite packages can be found at
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Precompiled binaries & pre-requisite packages can be found at the
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following sites. The gnucash versions here are all *extremely*
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old, and were indeed from gnucash's ancestor "xacc".
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IBM AIX 4.1.5
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-- SMIT-installable images
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-- warning, this is from the 1.0 series of xacc
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http://www.bull.de/pub/
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see also http://www-frec.bull.com/
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SCO OpenServer 5.0.4
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http://www.sco.com/skunkware/osr5/x11/apps/xacc/VOLS.tar
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-- this is from the 1.0 series of xacc
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Unixware 7
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-- use pkgadd to install
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