Re: Building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu Xenial

2018-02-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
It seems I spoke too soon. While the build went fine and I can launch the app from CLI, I can’t seem to get a proper .desktop file to be recognized by Unity, or successfully ‘Add to Dash/Lock to Launcher’ after a CLI run. (any such launcher wants to lock as ‘Unsaved book’ and won’t launch anyth

Re: Building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu Xenial

2018-02-27 Thread Les
I have contacted the developer (maintainer) for GC on getdeb twice about when to expect an update, but there have been no replies. Maybe not active anymore? Les On 02/27/2018 09:20 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Thanks Plutocrat, I noted the same staleness of version in the original post and

Re: Building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu Xenial

2018-02-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Thanks Plutocrat, I noted the same staleness of version in the original post and David Carlson noted it as well. Certainly, if people don’t mind being a release or two behind that is the simpler option. When I’m setting something up for someone else who likes *nix but isn’t tech savvy, though,

Re: Building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu Xenial

2018-02-27 Thread Plutocrat
Sorry, a bit late in answering this, and surprised that no-one else chipped in ... but in case it helps someone in the future, you can get pretty recent versions of GnuCash for Ubuntu etc in the getdeb repository. http://www.getdeb.net/app/Gnucash Saves a lot of messing around with com

Re: Building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu Xenial

2018-02-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Indeed, following a combination of the Trusty instructions and then part of the sequence for Autotools from the 2.8 instructions did the trick, without incident or missing dependencies. (I slightly modified the exact wiki commands because I wanted the sqlite3 backend, and AqBanking) I guess I w

Re: Continued Discover Card woes

2018-02-27 Thread Ronal B Morse
That's the most reliable way I've found, although I need to track only a small number of accounts.  If one had a large number to manage it could get a bit taxing. RBM On 02/27/2018 01:35 PM, David Carlson wrote: Chris, I just open the Discover user webpage and download the QFX file manually

Re: Continued Discover Card woes

2018-02-27 Thread David Carlson
Chris, I just open the Discover user webpage and download the QFX file manually. Then import it manually. I have to use that method with almost all of my other banks and credit cards anyway, so one more desn't make much difference. David C On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 2:04 PM, popcorn via gnucash-us

Re: Continued Discover Card woes

2018-02-27 Thread popcorn via gnucash-user
I've just picked up gnucash again and looking for a Discover Card solution. I was wondering if you (or anyone) has had an opportunity to review logs of Quicken downloading Discover data, and possibly making inferences from that. Thanks Hopefully there's a way to get AQBanking to work with

Re: Problem With Current Assets

2018-02-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Playing around, I managed to trigger the error message. I selected an account and then clicked the edit button. I then tried to re-assign it to itself as the parent. Of course, this is impossible. Not sure if that’s what happened in your case. And for me, I recall now naming did play a part. Be

Re: Problem With Current Assets

2018-02-27 Thread Les
Thanks for the reply, Adrien. Yes, I tried that repeatedly but kept getting the same error message.  I decided to go back to a previous GC file, opened it and my problem is now solved.  I saved that file with a new name. The fix was too simple although I have done this many times in the past.

Re: Problem With Current Assets

2018-02-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Did you try putting it back in it’s original place and trying again? I’ve encountered this error before, but sadly do not recall what triggered it or how I fixed it. I think I slightly recall it had something to do with similar naming, but I could be mistaken. My instinct though would be to dou

Problem With Current Assets

2018-02-27 Thread Les
I have a set my chart for accounts under Current Assets: Cash, then various banks etc.  Today, I decided to add a sub account to Cash: Banks.  In attempting to place the various banks under "Banks", one of my accounts got accidentally placed under another bank and I cannot figure out how to und

Re: Liabilities / Accounts

2018-02-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
James, Everyone has their own methods, but the Tutorial & Concepts Guide has a suggestion that I’ve followed and it’s served me well. I always enter transactions working in the account register the money is coming FROM. I never use the General Journal/Ledger. In the case of a liability/expens

Re: Building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu Xenial

2018-02-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Thanks Dave, I forgot about the README.dependencies file. I’ll take a look. I knew I was going to get some useful feedback from gcc and ./configure, I just didn’t know how messy it was going to be. I appreciate the tips on prefix and paths. That explains why I had trouble with a recent build o

Re: Building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu Xenial

2018-02-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Thanks Colin, Unfortunately, I’m giving him the system this weekend, so 18.04 is out. He’s been using Ubuntu since 10.04, Unity was enough of an adjustment and he’s been using it for 6 years. I’m not sure he’ll take to a more standard Gnome well. I was going to let him ride out Xenial till EOL

Re: Finance-Quote 1.47 Unable to retrieve Currency quotes

2018-02-27 Thread Adriano Baldi
Hello to all After some test I finally ad a delay of 30s delay between two subsequent downloads. With this delay the error disappear. - Quote.pm -- ... # Don't know if these have to be in upper case, but it's # better to be safe than sorry. $to =

Re: Liabilities / Accounts

2018-02-27 Thread Maf. King
On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 11:20:21 GMT you wrote: > Maf King > > Thank you for responding. > Under liabilities we have listed an account Rent due (which is listed in > Parent Account under Liabilities and under Account type Liability) when I > enter a value in the Journal enteries I get two ent

Re: Liabilities / Accounts

2018-02-27 Thread Maf. King
On Monday, 26 February 2018 22:51:39 GMT Seamus Duffy | J.D. Tools Ltd. wrote: > Support at GNUCash, > > I have downloaded your free accounts and i'm very impressed however, I have > a problem with entering a new account in Liabilities, maybe you could > instruct me how it should be done as I can'

Re: Building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu Xenial

2018-02-27 Thread Colin Law
On 26 February 2018 at 23:49, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > I’m setting up an Ubuntu Xenial machine for a family member and I’d like to > put Gnucash on it. The Xenial repos are dated to 2.6.12, a bit too stale. The next LTS (18.04) will be out in a few weeks and is available for download as a dail