Re: [GNC] v3.8

2020-01-01 Thread David Cousens via gnucash-user
This definitely looks like a permissions issue. One possibility is if you downloaded the source file with root permissions or copied it to another location using sudo privileges it may have saved the file with ownership by the root user so when you try to build it as your normal user it does not

Re: [GNC] v3.8

2020-01-01 Thread David Cousens via gnucash-user
Greg It is certainly possible to run a number of versions in parallel. I usually install my production version in /usr/local and I often initially install a new version under my home directory and work initially on a copy of the data file in a new location until I am happy to make it the producti

Re: [GNC] v3.8

2019-12-31 Thread David Cousens via gnucash-user
It should but you will have to install all the dependencies and their development headers to build successfully. There is a breakout page from the building instruction which gives you the dependencies to install. (There are occasionally some that are not covered as it depends on what the particular

Re: [GNC] v3.8

2019-12-30 Thread David Cousens via gnucash-user
Ken, I think you will find a number of posts in the last 6 months about updating the finace quotes which may help you with this. Search for finance quotes on the user forum should return them. If notit will be a new bug David Cousens - David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation

2019-11-21 Thread David Cousens via gnucash-user
Jack, David I haven't had to do this for quite a while but to do it you need the complete set of contiguous statements. For the purposes of description lets assume my last reconciled statement was to the 20/06/2019 and I am reconciling the period 21/06/2019 until 20/07/2019 ( date format dd-mm-yyy

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation

2019-11-21 Thread David Cousens via gnucash-user
David, > I would also want a flag of some >sort in the account tab for each account register that has a pending edit. >That should catch the complex window cases. One obvious flag here could be to change the colour of the text in the register tab header while a transaction in is open for editin

Re: [GNC] journal entries

2019-08-11 Thread David Cousens via gnucash-user
Harald, The following section in the GnuCash help manual gives the details of creating a transaction entry in GnuCash (https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-help/trans-enter.html). It assumes that you have the register (table of transactions for a specific account) open. You can do this in

Re: [GNC] transaction not appear

2019-07-22 Thread David Cousens via gnucash-user
Chris, A common problem often occurs with date entry. At one stage 4 digit dates were not recognized automatically and a date enterd in 2018 coiuld appear in a year '20 for example. The other possibility is the d-m-y or m-d-y ambiguity which can put transactions in the wrong month. GnuCash appears

Re: [GNC] Concern with the lengthy list of "Known Issues"

2019-07-21 Thread David Cousens via gnucash-user
Scott, I have been using GnuCash 3.6 on Linux Mint 19.1 since it was released (and most of the V3 releases usually within a few days of their release) without any significant issues at all. My usage is mainly for personal accounting but I do use a subset of the business features as well for a cou