%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ GnuCash-&gnucash-version; GnuCash Introduction to GnuCash GnuCash is a personal finance manager. Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &gnucash-src-md5sum; Download size: &gnucash-size; Estimated disk space required: &gnucash-buildsize; Estimated build time: &gnucash-time; Additional Downloads Help documentation: Download MD5 sum: &gnucash-docs-md5sum; GnuCash Dependencies Required , , , , and Optional , , , , GraphViz, Guile-www, Electric Fence Optional (for On-Line Banking) LibOFX (requires and ), KtoBlzCheck, AqHBCI (requires Gwenhywfar then AqBanking), and also see libchipcard Installation of GnuCash Install GnuCash by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome-1.4 \ --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-guppi && make To test the results, issue make check as the root user as the test suite will attempt to update the SLIB catalog in /usr/share/guile. Now, as the root user: make install && chown -v -R root:root /opt/gnome-1.4/share/gnucash/doc/html/html If you want to install the Help documentation (requires to be installed), unpack the additional tarball, change into the gnucash-docs-&gnucash-docs-version; source directory and issue the following commands as an unprivileged user: ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome-1.4 \ --localstatedir=/var/lib && make Now, as the root user: make install Command Explanations --prefix=/opt/gnome-1.4: GnuCash-&gnucash-version; is a GNOME-1.4 application. --sysconfdir=/etc: This installs configuration files in /etc/gnucash instead of /opt/gnome-1.4/etc/gnucash. --disable-guppi: This compiles GnuCash without support for creating GUI graphs and plots. Remove this option if you have Guppi installed. : This parameter is required if you want to build in SQL support using PostgreSQL. : This parameter is required if you want to build in on-line banking support using LibOFX. : This parameter is required if you want to build in on-line banking support using AqBanking/AqHBCI. See doc/README.HBCI in the GnuCash source tree for complete information. Configuring GnuCash Configuration Information If you wish to use GnuCash to retrieve stock price quotes and stock historical information, you'll need to install the following Perl modules: , , , and . GnuCash must be run as root once before use. Simply executing gnucash from an X terminal and clicking on the cancel button is sufficient. This must be done prior to setting up accounts as an unprivileged user, due to the fact that GnuCash must update scheme catalogs before it is used. Contents Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories dump-finance-quote, gnc-prices, gnc-test-env, gnucash, gnucash-config, gnucash-env, gnucash-make-guids, gnucash-run-script and update-finance-quote libcore-utils.so, libgnc-app-file-gnome.so, libgncgnome.so, libgncmodule.so, libgw-core-utils.so, libgw-gnc.so and numerous support libraries installed in /opt/gnome-1.4/lib/gnucash /etc/gnucash, /opt/gnome-1.4/include/gnucash, /opt/gnome-1.4/lib/gnucash, /opt/gnome-1.4/libexec/gnucash, /opt/gnome-1.4/share/gnome/apps/Applications, /opt/gnome-1.4/share/gnome/help/gnucash, /opt/gnome-1.4/share/gnucash, /opt/gnome-1.4/share/omf/gnucash-docs and /opt/gnome-1.4/share/pixmaps/gnucash Short Descriptions gnucash is a personal finance manager. gnucash