Re: [GNC] Gnucash fails to run after upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04

2019-08-07 Thread Colin Law
On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 07:44, James E wrote: > > I used to run Gnucash 2.6.12 in Ubuntu 14.04 . > > I upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04. During the upgrade I was asked if I wanted > to keep several Gnucash files/piece of information – one of which was the > Alpha Advantage API key . I replied t

Re: [GNC] Price in Register Account report not decimal

2019-08-10 Thread Colin Law
On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 at 06:19, Joe Normandeau wrote: > > I'm just new to this mail list so if I get something wrong be gentle. > > I've just upgraded to GnuCash 3.3 from 2.6.13 and I can't get the price > in the register account report to be decimal. It always comes out as 2 > + a fraction ie. 2 +

Re: [GNC] Price in Register Account report not decimal

2019-08-11 Thread Colin Law
> Adrien > > > >> On Aug 10, 2019, at 4:09 AM, Joe Normandeau wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 10/08/2019 5:37 pm, Colin Law wrote: > >>> On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 at 06:19, Joe Normandeau > >>> wrote: > >>>> I'm just new to this

Re: [GNC] Default tab on open

2019-08-13 Thread Colin Law
Can I just check that you realise you can have multiple tabs open at once, each showing an account. So to switch accounts you just need to click on the tab. Colin On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 01:04, Rick Mobley wrote: > > Is there a place to set a "default" tab to open up to? I'd like for it to > ope

Re: [GNC] I can no longer connect to mysql after upgrading to Debian Buster

2019-08-15 Thread Colin Law
Have a look in the gnucash trace file and see if there is anything helpful there. Colin On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 at 09:48, sepp wrote: > > Hi > > Sorry, I do not even know if this belongs here but I am a little lost > > I am a happy GnuCash user for years and have used Mysql as a backend for > quite

Re: [GNC] Scrolling problem

2019-08-20 Thread Colin Law
Check in View > Filter By that in the Date tab that Show All is selected, and in the Status tab that all boxes are checked. Colin On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 at 15:18, Jonathan Silvey wrote: > > I cannot scroll to transactions at an earlier date than what's at the top > of the current screen. THis happe

Re: [GNC] Scrolling problem

2019-08-20 Thread Colin Law
ction and then use the up arrow to scroll to the top and keep going? Has this just started happening? If so did anything happen that might have triggered it? Colin > > Jonathan > > > > On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 at 15:48, Colin Law wrote: >> >> Check in View > Filte

Re: [GNC] Scrolling problem

2019-08-27 Thread Colin Law
Up arrow and it shows just >> one more transaction. >> >> It's been happening for several months now and if I changed anything that >> might have triggered it, I can't remember doing so. >> >> >> >> Jonathan >> >> >> >> On Tu

Re: [GNC] 2 Questions About Debit Cards

2019-08-28 Thread Colin Law
Is your debit card account a separate account at the bank, or is the card just a way of taking money out of the chequeing acct? Colin On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 at 09:58, Haim Roman wrote: > > Hi. I'm new to GnuCash and to bookkeeping/accounting in general. I have 2 > questions about debit cards. > >

Re: [GNC] Adjusting debit/credit col widths in the registers

2019-09-05 Thread Colin Law
Or if you double click the column header it should resize to fit the contents. Colin On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 at 15:41, wrote: > > Can I adjust the debit/credit column widths in the registers? Figured out > how to get the font the size I can see, thanks for the help. Now I need to > make those number

Re: [GNC] Unable to modify existing database

2019-09-25 Thread Colin Law
Wasn't there an issue posted recently about Windows deciding that gnucash was a malicious app and not letting it write anything to disk? Colin On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 at 20:16, Sadhna True wrote: > > I have not changed the location where the files are saved (in my user folder > on the C:\ drive). I

Re: [GNC] Newly saved file won't load

2019-10-08 Thread Colin Law
3.0 had a number of significant bugs, though I don't know if that is one of them. You should upgrade to 3.7 if possible Colin On Tue, 8 Oct 2019, 12:23 David Mills, wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using GNU cash for years and have loved it. > > I recently upgraded my Linux from OpenSUSE 42.3 to Leap

Re: [GNC] Backporting Gnucash 3.7 to Ubuntu "Bionic" (or Mint, etc.)

2019-10-26 Thread Colin Law
"The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when installing software locally" means software that is *not* installed using the normal packaging system. The packaging system will not install to that location so it is safe to put things like self-built gnucash there. Colin On

Re: [GNC] Problem entering splits

2019-11-10 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 at 07:31, Al Heynneman wrote: > > Christopher, > > Thanks for the quick response, and the information. I'll keep an eye out > for an update in the Ubuntu repos. The standard Ubuntu repo will not get an upgrade. With Ubuntu, generally only security fixes are retrofittted after

Re: [GNC] Problem entering splits

2019-11-10 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 at 14:56, Al Heynneman wrote: > > Are you aware that gnucash.org has been down for a couple of days, or more? Yes, I have seen the several posts here about it and what is happening. Colin ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@g

Re: [GNC] Schedule Transaction Shows Entered but is not?

2019-11-15 Thread Colin Law
Are you saying that in the sched tx editor it shows a date for Last Occurrence, but when you look in all of the accounts that it should affect it is not there? Make sure you check in all of them. I presume you have not changed it in the editor since that date. Colin On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 at 19:24,

Re: [GNC] Schedule Transaction Shows Entered but is not?

2019-11-15 Thread Colin Law
r 11/8 is 11th August or 8th November. Colin > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 4:29 PM Colin Law wrote: >> >> Are you saying that in the sched tx editor it shows a date for Last >> Occurrence, but when you look in all of the accounts that it should >> affect it is not the

Re: [GNC] Archiving transactions

2019-11-16 Thread Colin Law
On Sat, 16 Nov 2019 at 18:14, M. Rizwan Muzzammil wrote: > ... > My accounts have a large number of transactions in them. > > This seems to slow the program down, and it take a minute or so to open it > each time. How large is your accounts file (I assume that you are using the default xml file s

Re: [GNC] Locked out of gnucash

2019-11-18 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 at 13:59, D via gnucash-user wrote: > ... > Remember that the lock file and this check exist firstly to prevent multiple > users from opening the file at one time--and that is still a possibility. That may be reason for the test but it is not the most common cause. In fact ar

Re: [GNC] MySQL

2019-11-30 Thread Colin Law
Have you checked you can access the server using the same credentials, with a different mysql client? Colin On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 at 18:51, wrote: > > Hi > > > > I used to be able to save my Gnucash file as MySQL but recently got a new > laptop and I now get a message "the server at URL nysql://et

Re: [GNC] how to migrate data to new computer

2019-12-08 Thread Colin Law
Are you sure you have got the correct file? What is it called and how did you get it? Colin On Sun, 8 Dec 2019 at 21:45, The Frankses wrote: > > I'm trying to migrate my GnuCash data to a new computer. When I try to open > the file from within GnuCash, I get this message: "No suitable backend w

Re: [GNC] how to migrate data to new computer

2019-12-08 Thread Colin Law
The easiest way to get the right file may be to open gnucash on the old machine and use File > Save As to save it to a USB stick or similar. Then you can copy it to a suitable folder on the new machine and use File Open in gnucash to open it. On Sun, 8 Dec 2019, 21:45 The Frankses, wrote: > I'm

Re: [GNC] Sub-accounts disappeared during upgrade 3.5 > 3.7

2019-12-16 Thread Colin Law
Are you sure they are really gone? Find a transaction in an account which was the other side of one of the missing sub accounts (so maybe a checking account transaction that went to the Main House expense account for example) open that transaction and see what it shows. Try clicking on the button

Re: [GNC] Total Debt/Credit in Register Report

2019-12-27 Thread Colin Law
Please provide an exact example of what you mean, then we should be able to explain the discrepancy. Also tell us which version of the software you are using and on what operating system. Colin On Fri, 27 Dec 2019, 16:34 ceandyek laedon via gnucash-user, < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > I e

Re: [GNC] Chaning left sidebar spacing

2020-01-01 Thread Colin Law
Can you post a screenshot showing exactly what you mean? Colin On Wed, 1 Jan 2020 at 00:55, William Marshall via gnucash-user wrote: > > Hi All, > > I don’t know if this is the right pace to ask this or not, and I’m sure it’s > already been asked many times, but Googling for solutions hasn’t pr

Re: [GNC] Chaning left sidebar spacing

2020-01-01 Thread Colin Law
ve (to my eye) top and bottom boundaries. > ALSO, notice that there is a separator between the two. I’d really like to > scrunch everything together like it used to be. > > I really appreciate any help you can provide. > > Bill > > > > On Jan 1, 2020, at 10:00 AM, Coli

Re: [GNC] Chaning left sidebar spacing

2020-01-02 Thread Colin Law
; shouldn’t either. The padding is spec’d specifically, but font size might > make a difference if the padding is set in ems. > > > > On Jan 1, 2020 w1d1, at 4:31 PM, Colin Law wrote: > > > > I see what you mean. On Ubuntu with Waterfox browser they are much > tighter

Re: [GNC] Chaning left sidebar spacing

2020-01-03 Thread Colin Law
pt have any impact. > > I really appreciate you taking the time to respond. > > Bill > > > > On Jan 1, 2020, at 6:45 PM, D wrote: > > > > William, > > > > Did the discussion on css styling not work for you? > > > > David T. > > &g

Re: [GNC] Chaning left sidebar spacing

2020-01-03 Thread Colin Law
ons to try. I should be able to report > back with those later today. > > Regards, > Adrien > > > On Jan 3, 2020 w1d3, at 10:43 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > > > Has anyone else confirmed whether they are seeing this issue, and if > > so on what OS. Certainly

Re: [GNC] Chaning left sidebar spacing

2020-01-07 Thread Colin Law
Is it expected that the look should be that much different between Ubuntu and Mac/Windows? Colin On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 22:16, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > The GnuCash GTK3 wiki page will help: > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GTK3#Visual_Styling > > Report back if there is something there you ne

Re: [GNC] transaction entries

2020-01-07 Thread Colin Law
When it initially puts the split transaction in, right click and select Delete Other Splits (or something like that). Colin On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 07:12, Carl Hofinga wrote: > > When I make transactions entries I enter 1) the date; 2) a reference number > if applicable; 3) for the description co

Re: [GNC] Chaning left sidebar spacing

2020-01-07 Thread Colin Law
latforms. > > Regards, > Adrien > > > > > On Jan 7, 2020 w2d7, at 2:49 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > > > Is it expected that the look should be that much different between > > Ubuntu and Mac/Windows? > > > > Colin > > > > > __

Re: [GNC] Anyone noticing an issue with list messages 'un-threading'?

2020-01-07 Thread Colin Law
I am seeing this too (using gmail) and it is rather annoying. I assumed it was a list issue, but do you think it is particular users that are causing it? Colin On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 19:11, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > Starting in late December I noticed almost every subject is coming in as > s

Re: [GNC] Anyone noticing an issue with list messages 'un-threading'?

2020-01-08 Thread Colin Law
I think, though not fully certain, that something is messing up the In Reply To message ID, and the References section of the reply. Colin On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 06:23, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > To be clear, I’m not trying to single anyone out but at least in the > ‘Chaning’ thread, one other

Re: [GNC] Anyone noticing an issue with list messages 'un-threading'?

2020-01-08 Thread Colin Law
The odd thing is that it started happening recently, so something changed somewhere, and I have not seen the issue in any other lists. Colin On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 15:15, Fred Bone wrote: > > On 08 January 2020 at 0:13, Adrien Monteleone said: > > > David, > > > > It’s quite all right. I think it

Re: [GNC] Problems with opening files

2020-01-08 Thread Colin Law
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 17:43, Alan Cameron via gnucash-user wrote: > > HI, > > I am a GnuCash user running on a Mac with Catalina installed. I was working > on my accounts last night and had brought them up to date. When I logged in > tonight I tried to open the file only to see an unsaved book

Re: [GNC] AR problems

2020-01-14 Thread Colin Law
On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 19:31, Bruce Irving via gnucash-user wrote: > > Win10, GC 3.8, SQLLiteI am very disappointed - to the extent that I'm angry! Rather than ranting it might be more productive if you asked for help. Explain exactly what result you want and someone may be able to point you in t

Re: [GNC] storing password when using mysql backend

2020-01-15 Thread Colin Law
If you don't want password protection on the db then you can set it to empty. Colin On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 at 04:18, Fourhundred Thecat <400the...@gmx.ch> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am using Gnucash 3.4 with Mysql (MariaDB) backend. > > Every time I start Gnucash, I have to type in the mysql password.

Re: [GNC] Minimum window width

2020-01-18 Thread Colin Law
I submitted a bug for this [1] back in 2018. The minimum window width increased in v3 for no obvious reason. There was some discussion of it here but nothing came of it at the time. Colin [1] https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796911 On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 at 02:26, Adrien Monteleone wrote

Re: [GNC] Minimum window width

2020-01-18 Thread Colin Law
On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 at 09:07, Liz wrote: > > The problem went away in 3.7. I am not able to try that at the moment, if this has been improved that would be good. Colin ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription p

Re: [GNC] 3.8 crash on Ubuntu 18.04

2020-01-19 Thread Colin Law
Looking at the report I think that a fix has now been merged, so hopefully it will be fixed in the next release of gtk (or maybe even in the current release). Colin On Sat, 18 Jan 2020, 23:58 Fred Smith, wrote: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 02:59:09PM -0800, John Ralls wrote: > > > > > > > On Jan

Re: [GNC] Minimum window width

2020-01-22 Thread Colin Law
On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 04:14, Tommy Trussell wrote: > > The register window size may have improved with 3.7 or 3.8 but it still seems > pretty big to me after upgrading from 2.6.19 to 3.7 a few months ago. > With 2.6.19 I was seeing a min width of about 1000px and this went up to 1350px with 3.3

Re: [GNC] Split Transactions

2020-02-09 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 9 Feb 2020 at 21:18, annapolishome via gnucash-user wrote: > > How do I delete split transaction associated with a specific payee? Having entered the payee name in the register and seeing that it says Split Transaction then right click that and select Delete Other Splits. Colin _

Re: [GNC] Incorrect starting balance for 2019

2020-02-10 Thread Colin Law
First make a backup copy of your .gnucash file, in fact no doubt you are backing up your data file regularly anyway. That is the file that has the name that you gave it when you first saved it in gnucash and probably has the extension .gnucash. Does the account currently match that in the account

Re: [GNC] GNUCash XML format compatibility

2020-02-10 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 at 15:21, Wirawan Purwanto wrote: > > Hi David, thanks for clarification. For every major release (either > 2.x or 3.x series), is there a guarantee for file format > compatibility? Upwards, yes I believe so. Any migration necessary would be handled by gnucash itself. There

Re: [GNC] GNUCash XML format compatibility

2020-02-12 Thread Colin Law
On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 at 16:44, Peter West wrote: > > So is there a release called 3.x? The first digit is the major release number, so the current major release number is 3 and the next major release will be the first one starting with 4. The second digit is the minor release number, so 3.7 is ma

Re: [GNC] Multiple copies of gnucash-user messages from the list

2020-02-15 Thread Colin Law
You will learn a huge amount if you keep getting all mail, skim them, and delete ones that are not of relevant to you. In no time you will find yourself helping others and putting a bit back into the community. If you only ask questions and take the answers then you are not putting anything back

Re: [GNC] help

2020-02-18 Thread Colin Law
Can you post a screenshot showing the problem? Colin On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 at 10:09, Keith Miller wrote: > > How to get help? > On Ubuntu the transfers dropdown is transparent so you can not read the > items in the list. > ___ > gnucash-user mailing list

Re: [GNC] Small bug in the display

2020-02-19 Thread Colin Law
Does double clicking the date column header fix it? What OS are you using and what version of GnuCash? Colin On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 09:05, mhdecoursey . wrote: > > The first column of date characters is partially outside the window frame, > making some entries difficult to read. snap enclosed.

Re: [GNC] 3.7 Accounts open bar

2020-02-23 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 at 10:55, elvis wrote: > > > On 4/12/19 3:47 am, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Op dinsdag 3 december 2019 13:08:30 CET schreef elvis: > >> On 3/12/19 8:58 pm, Geert Janssens wrote: > > ... > > If you happen to be on linux (you didn't mention your platform) you could > > try > > to

Re: [GNC] Can't get v3.8 to work, Nor generate Expense Over Time Report on v2.6.21

2020-02-26 Thread Colin Law
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 00:59, David Cousens wrote: > > Leo, > > There were changes in the storage locations of configuration files between > 2.6 and 3.x described on this page on the wiki If the OP ran 3.8 and then went back to an older version could this have messed things up? Colin ___

Re: [GNC] Bug while trying to select date (01/01/2019) - immediately changes to 12/31/1969

2020-02-29 Thread Colin Law
That reminds me of an old bug I think, what version of gnucash are you running and what OS? Colin On Sun, 1 Mar 2020, 06:52 Barufa, wrote: > I would appreciate your help with a date selecting bug. Don't know if I > changed something in the Preferences menu or somewhere else, but I'm not > able

Re: [GNC] Bug while trying to select date (01/01/2019) - immediately changes to 12/31/1969

2020-03-01 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 at 12:25, Barufa wrote: > > I'm using 3.8b+ (2019-12-29) running on Windows 10. Not the old bug then, unless it has crept back in. Colin ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences o

Re: [GNC] GC 2.6.19 & GC 3.8

2020-03-02 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 at 23:05, Les wrote: > > I have just installed GC 3.8 via Flatpak and used my 2.6 version to > start it but saved the file to a different location. What file? If you mean an accounts file it should save to wherever you tell it to save, and if you open a file using File > Open

Re: [GNC] How to install Gnucash 3.8 on Debian 10 "buster"?

2020-03-02 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 at 15:51, km22 wrote: > > P.S. I believe this is the bug in 3.4: > https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797046 > > It is too bad there isn't a way for Debian's stable release to get bug > fixes so that the stable version in the repo remains the most reliable > version. Seem

Re: [GNC] GC 2.6.19 & GC 3.8

2020-03-02 Thread Colin Law
; (2.6.19) and (3.8). However, since I am not knowledgeable in Linux file > structure, I have decided that I will only open one file at a time. > Once I am convinced that both are maintaining the same account balances, > I will drop the 2.6.19 version. > > Thanks, > > On 3/2/20 9:

Re: [GNC] GC 2.6.19 & GC 3.8

2020-03-02 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 at 18:27, Les wrote: > > Hi Colin: > > Thanks for your input. > > It appears that they do indeed update together. In that case both apps are accessing the same file. Colin > > Les > > > On 3/2/20 10:02 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > If you

Re: [GNC] How to install Gnucash 3.8 on Debian 10 "buster"?

2020-03-02 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 at 17:51, Peter Zimmerer wrote: > > The changes in Gnucash from version 3.7 to 3.8 and beyond are mainly > covering changes because of regulatory changes of the European Union > (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Services_Directive), which > is neither bug fixing nor ne

Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

2018-12-24 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 24 Dec 2018 at 05:03, Jennym <55.jennifer.mas...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... > So what I'd like to do: Retain all of 2018 accounts (having them to hand > for easy access), but have them zeroed for 2019. I don't do this, for me there is no point. It is possible to view or report on only transa

Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

2018-12-25 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 24 Dec 2018 at 22:39, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > > On 12/24/2018 3:45 PM, Colin Law wrote: > > > I don't do this, for me there is no point. It is possible to view or > > report on only transactions within a date range if one wants so I > > don&#x

Re: [GNC] GNUCash fails to start on Windows 10 after windows update

2018-12-25 Thread Colin Law
On Tue, 25 Dec 2018 at 08:18, luca wrote: > > Hello everyone, I have the same issue that GnuCash won't start for me anymore > after receiving a Windows update. > > It does not work on one of my devices anymore (Windows Version > 10.0.17763.195) [I even tried reinstalling Windows on that device] bu

Re: [GNC] .deb package

2018-12-27 Thread Colin Law
On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 16:19, Lincoln A Baxter wrote: > > Hey everyone, the event I've been waiting for just happened. > > https://tracker.debian.org/news/1012613/gnucash-133-2-migrated-to-testi > ng/ > > GunCash 3.3-2 was just migrated to Debian testing. It was blocked for a > long time because i

Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

2018-12-28 Thread Colin Law
It is unfortunate that the original poster has not considered it appropriate to respond to the help offered here. Colin On Mon, 24 Dec 2018 at 05:03, Jennym <55.jennifer.mas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > I only started using GNUCash last April for simple, personal accounting, so > I'm at the 'b

Re: [GNC] Backspace key stops working

2018-12-30 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 03:52, Bruce Lang wrote: > > Me too > > Issue is when I enter a new transaction. It auto-fills the previous > similar transaction which is what I want but when I go to edit the > details - let's say I want to change a word using Shift-Back (or > Forward) arrow, it se

Re: [GNC] Updating advice

2018-12-30 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 09:49, Finbar Mahon wrote: > > Hello, > > I want to do a backup of the current installation as of 31.12.2018 and > install the latest version (3.3?) from 1.1.2019. First is this a > worthwhile action and is there any particular process I should follow? I > have looked around

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: [GNC-dev] GnuCash 3.4 Released

2018-12-30 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 20:08, John Ralls wrote: > > The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 3.4, the fifth release of the > 3.x stable release series. Excellent, thanks John and to the rest of the team. Colin > > Changes > > Between 3.3 and 3.4, the following bugfixes were accomplished:

Re: [GNC] Updating advice

2018-12-31 Thread Colin Law
g a > backup? > > TIA for any advice. > > Barry > > On 30/12/2018 11:50, Finbar Mahon wrote: > > Sorry, I meant doing the first option (as I should have been:-[) > > before updating to 3.3. > > > > Thanks for the information. I'll have a look at th

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] *.deb package for GnuCash 3.4 Released

2018-12-31 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 20:33, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > For those interested in a deb file but not willing to compile yourself: > https://drive.google.com/open?id=172BMIvLgD7twcGEWkR5GcddoZ_A4QWfY --> > gnucash_3.4-0-1_amd64.deb I am trying this on Ubuntu 18.10 and when running it I get error

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] *.deb package for GnuCash 3.4 Released

2018-12-31 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 10:06, Colin Law wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 20:33, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > > > For those interested in a deb file but not willing to compile yourself: > > https://drive.google.com/open?id=172BMIvLgD7twcGEWkR5GcddoZ_A4QWfY --> > >

Re: [GNC] Updating advice

2018-12-31 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 11:31, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Another way to figure out where your current data file is stored: > * Open GnuCash > * Click on the File menu > * You will see a list of last-used files between the "Properties" and the > "Close" menu items > * Hover with your mouse pointer o

Re: [GNC] *.deb package for GnuCash 3.4 Released

2018-12-31 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 13:57, Les wrote: > > Thanks for the great work Steve. > > I am currently using Linux Mint 18.2 and GC 2.6.17. I am wondering if > this .deb will run on my system, or will I have to update Linux MInt to > 19.0? There shouldn't be any danger trying it, though obviously back

Re: [GNC] *.deb package for GnuCash 3.4 Released

2019-01-01 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 17:58, Tim Kallmer wrote: > > > > > the .deb package did not work for me on Ubuntu 18.10 As I posted earlier, for ubuntu 18.10 do sudo apt install libboost-regex1.65.1 Colin ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: [GNC] *.deb package for GnuCash 3.4 Released

2019-01-01 Thread Colin Law
indow using Ctrl-Shift-C Colin > > On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 4:12 AM Colin Law wrote: >> >> On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 17:58, Tim Kallmer wrote: >> > >> > > >> > > the .deb package did not work for me on Ubuntu 18.10 >> >> As I posted earlier

Re: [GNC] *.deb package for GnuCash 3.4 Released

2019-01-01 Thread Colin Law
> directory Looks like it also needs sudo apt install libboost-locale1.65.1 I imagine I already have that installed but can't check at this moment. Colin > > the program never opens, unless i remove and reinstall 3.3. > > On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 3:36 PM Colin Law wrote: >

Re: [GNC] *.deb package for GnuCash 3.4 Released

2019-01-02 Thread Colin Law
I have installed 3.4 onto another Ubuntu 18.10 and can confirm Tim Kallmer's findings as to the additional packages that need to be installed. I have noticed one other slight complication, that Ubuntu seems to think that the version from the deb (3.4-0-1) is earlier than the version from the repo

Re: [GNC] *.deb package for GnuCash 3.4 Released

2019-01-03 Thread Colin Law
On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 at 23:12, nvsoar wrote: > ... > Do you think that 'sudo apt -f install' would work to get the libboost > packages? No, as Liz said that would only help if the deb said that it needs those packages, in which case dpkg would have complained that they were not installed. They pro

Re: [GNC] GnuCash won't open

2019-01-03 Thread Colin Law
On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 07:10, Ruth L. Mazur wrote: > > I have downloaded GnuCash 3.4-Intel to my Mac OS10.11.6 a dozen times but I > can not get it to open. For Privacy I’m set to sites that I visit. Once I > set it to Anyone and that didn’t work either. Did you carefully follow the installati

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Launchpad

2019-01-03 Thread Colin Law
On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 21:28, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu > > > Colin, do you have a machine on which this can be tested? Yes, on Ubuntu 18.10. Note that I think this is intended for disc

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Launchpad

2019-01-03 Thread Colin Law
> > On 1/3/19 1:34 PM, Colin Law wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 21:28, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > >> mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu > >> <http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gnucash/gnucash_3.4-1_amd64.deb> > >> > >> Colin, do you

Re: [GNC] Deb 3.4.0.1 not working for me in ubuntu 18.04

2019-01-06 Thread Colin Law
Just to clarify a bit, after installing you have to tell the update manager not to replace it with the original version again, as described in that thread, Colin On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 at 00:04, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > On 1/6/19 3:40 PM, DaveW wrote: > > Ubuntu 18.04. I am hoping to upgrade fr

Re: [GNC] Deb 3.4.0.1 not working for me in ubuntu 18.04

2019-01-08 Thread Colin Law
m the terminal using Ctrl-Shift-C Colin On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 at 23:41, DaveW wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 07:31:47 +0000 > Colin Law wrote: > > > Just to clarify a bit, after installing you have to tell the update > > manager not to replace it with the original version ag

Re: [GNC] Deb 3.4.0.1 not working for me in ubuntu 18.04

2019-01-08 Thread Colin Law
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 05:15, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > 18.04, I’ve tested them on 18.10, but there is a larger dependency mess. There is no dependency hell installing from Stephen's deb on 18.10 ( https://drive.google.com/open?id=172BMIvLgD7twcGEWkR5GcddoZ_A4QW

Re: [GNC] Deb 3.4.0.1 not working for me in ubuntu 18.04

2019-01-08 Thread Colin Law
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 09:23, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Yes, on a clean installation of 18.10. But as I experienced with an > upgrade from Xenial (via Bionic first) GnuCash keeps wanting to look for > older versions of libboost for some reason and trying to instal

Re: [GNC] Deb 3.4.0.1 not working for me in ubuntu 18.04

2019-01-08 Thread Colin Law
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 10:46, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > See my replies in this thread on -devel starting here: > https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2019-January/043146.html Is not that referring to the Disc deb file, not the one built by Stephen f

Re: [GNC] Deb 3.4.0.1 not working for me in ubuntu 18.04

2019-01-08 Thread Colin Law
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 17:52, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > I am trying to get a better deb via Launchpad were we can put up a ppa > for folks to point to. Probably name it "gnucash-daily", although I > don't see it changing daily but as commits are made to the maint branch. > >From my personal p

Re: [GNC] Deb 3.4.0.1 not working for me in ubuntu 18.04

2019-01-08 Thread Colin Law
On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 06:37, DaveW wrote: > ... > > 1. The commands work equally for 18.04 and 18.10? > Yes, I believe so, they may not all be necessary on 18.04 but they won't do any harm. > > 2. I currently have Gnucash 3.2 loaded and working. It >

Re: [GNC] GnuCash won't open

2019-01-09 Thread Colin Law
d eject it. > > Sorry this just won’t work for me. > > Ruth Mazur > > > > > > On Jan 3, 2019, at 1:16 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > > > On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 07:10, Ruth L. Mazur > wrote: > >> > >> I have downloaded GnuCash 3.4-Intel to my

Re: [GNC] Present Reconcile Is Showing Previous Reconciled Items UnReconciled

2019-01-11 Thread Colin Law
You should get a warning if you edit a reconciled transaction. If you aren't getting that then that probably means you accepted the warning at some point and selected don't tell me again. If you want to re-enable it then select Actions > Reset Warnings. Colin On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 at 02:15, Matt H

Re: [GNC] Copy a month's budget

2019-01-12 Thread Colin Law
On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 15:44, Tommy Trussell wrote: > ... > In my opinion, trimming the quotations of the discussion, then adding > wisdom (such as it may be) to the end of the thread is the kindest of all, > because (1) everyone knows exactly what points are being addressed, and (2) > It encourag

Re: [GNC] Formatting reply posts (Re: Copy a month's budget)

2019-01-12 Thread Colin Law
On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 21:15, aeg via gnucash-user wrote: > > It's good to see that the formatting issue is being addressed and my > suggestion is as follows... >- Italicise all quoted text from previous contributors. Tricky for those that do not want (or cannot) use html formatting. Also mo

Re: [GNC] Formatting reply posts

2019-01-12 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 13 Jan 2019, 03:32 David Carlson Unfortunately, gmail seems to force me into top posting by opening up my > reply with the previous text at the bottom an d hidden below three dots. > It doesn't help, I agree, particularly with deleting sections of the post. It is easy enough to insert at

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] dpkg-builder

2019-01-20 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 at 19:03, Mechtilde wrote: > > Hello > > unter debian Buster you can use GnuCash version 3.4 from the Debian repo. Yes, but not in Ubuntu 18.10. Colin > > Kind regards > > > -- > Mechtilde Stehmann > ## Apache OpenOffice > ## Freie Office Suite für Linux, MacOSX, Windows > #

Re: [GNC] Date Completion - sliding 12 month window

2019-01-20 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 at 19:20, Parke wrote: > ... > Come 2020, I may try switching to Lubuntu 20.04. I don't think that will help, I think it will still need dconf, though I may be wrong. Colin ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Debian package

2019-01-22 Thread Colin Law
Sorry for delay, been otherwise engaged. On a live Ubuntu 18.10 session running off the install image I started by attempting to install gnucash_3.4_amd64.deb ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -i Downloads/gnucash_3.4_amd64.deb Selecting previously unselected package gnucash. (Reading database ... 149974

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Debian package

2019-01-22 Thread Colin Law
On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 15:34, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > Looks like the dependency list from the mainline is missing a few > entries. I'll check that out. > > Also, here are the files for the debian folder used in the build. Any > suggestions or corrections would be appreciated. Wondering if

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-24 Thread Colin Law
On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 13:59, Finbar Mahon wrote: > > I understand the logic of what you describe, but, I started using > GNUCash with effect from 1.1.2018. > > The opening balance on the bank statement for one of the asset a/c was > €3,986.22 and the ending balance on 16.2.2018 was €5,117.09 > >

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-24 Thread Colin Law
hat might cause an opening > balance not to match. > > David T. > > On January 24, 2019, at 9:30 PM, Colin Law wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 13:59, Finbar Mahon wrote: > > > > I understand the logic of what you describe, but, I started using > > GNUCash with

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-26 Thread Colin Law
Do the starting and ending balances shown there match the ones on the bank statement you are reconciling against? Colin On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 at 11:51, Finbar Mahon wrote: > I don't understand where you are seeing the figures you describe. Can > you post a screenshot showing it? > > This what I

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-26 Thread Colin Law
On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 at 18:16, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > Strange how the OP’s post doesn’t show the screenshot, but it is visible in > your reply... I can see it in the original in gmail web i/f, but I am not sure how it is included. My reply seems to have converted it to an attached image. C

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-26 Thread Colin Law
ching and just using img.ur) > > I wonder now if this is a failing of Mail.app or my ISP. > > Wonderful, yet another rabbit hole to dive down...but thanks for the compass > directions > > Regards, > Adrien > > > On Jan 26, 2019, at 12:20 PM, Colin Law wrote: &g

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