I'd really like to give gnucash a try. If it works, I can get rid of Win4Lin
and Quicken. It's the only Windoze program left that I use (except once a
year booting to XP to do taxes!)

I've reserached this to the hilt (see below.... am I "Slacker" yet? :-))

Q: Has it gotten "easier" yet? Does anyone know if the current ver of slib
(3a?) will work (now.) Has anyone had any success with the latest package on
Linuxpackages?

<editorial>
With Quicken being the widest used financial package you'd think that either
Intuit would port it to Linux... or that there would be a Linux "clone" of
it. I know about Kapitol, but last time I checked, it would not run on
Slack... I forget why.) cbTracker is nice, but lame in the report dept. (like
the nice P&L Quicken does for you.) And Moneydance will not print with
Slack... some problme with Java and cups, etc... and I think they are out of
business. Maybe I should look at Wine/Crossover Office with Quicken? For now
Win4Lin is OK, but I dread having to install it again.... building a kernal,
and so on..... PITA.
</editorial>

Al





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A-B C. <atakeoutcanton@adams-blaketakeout.com> wrote:
> I'd really like to give gnucash a try. If it works, I can get rid of Win4Lin
> and Quicken. It's the only Windoze program left that I use (except once a
> year booting to XP to do taxes!)

I'm fairly sure that gnucash has always worked if you could get its
dependencies satisfied.

> Q: Has it gotten "easier" yet?

It hasn't gotten any harder. If you can't find binaries that work, then
you need to construct a dependency graph to aid your compilation. I
suggest following the dependencies from one of the BSD ports to get an
idea of where to start.

jag
--
Jeremy A. Gray
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"Remember the Pueblo." -- the Fourth Law of Marvin

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You forgot to put "in the US" beside that, AFAIK Sage is the most used
one here in the UK.

Billy
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Billy Watt wrote:

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> A-B C. wrote:
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> | <editorial>
> | With Quicken being the widest used financial package
> |
>
> You forgot to put "in the US" beside that, AFAIK Sage is the most used
> one here in the UK.
>

Hmmm. Never herad of that one. Anyway, I spent an hour this PM with CB-Tracker
and it's come a long way since I saw it last. It still does not have a good
P&L report, but other than that, it does most of what I need.

I'd still like to have gnucash, but I don't have the time to fight with the
install. I did my research and decided it's just not worth it at this time.

Al

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 09:11:33 -0700, "A-B C."
<atakeoutcanton@adams-blaketakeout.com> wrote:

>I'd really like to give gnucash a try. If it works, I can get rid of Win4Lin
>and Quicken. It's the only Windoze program left that I use (except once a
>year booting to XP to do taxes!)
>

I've been using MoneyDance www.moneydance.com for about a year.

It's getting better and better, the developer is very responsive to
problems and there is a nice mailing list.
It handles my checkbook and online banking very nicely.
It also handles stocks although I haven't tried that.

Before I discovered MoneyDance I nearly became a slave of Quicken
after my 15 year old CheckFree dos program was discontinued.

It's a java program that runs on most platforms - of course I use it
on Slack.

Austin Reed wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 09:11:33 -0700, "A-B C."
> <atakeoutcanton@adams-blaketakeout.com> wrote:
>
>>I'd really like to give gnucash a try. If it works, I can get rid of Win4Lin
>>and Quicken. It's the only Windoze program left that I use (except once a
>>year booting to XP to do taxes!)
>>
>
> I've been using MoneyDance www.moneydance.com for about a year.
>
> It's getting better and better, the developer is very responsive to
> problems and there is a nice mailing list.
> It handles my checkbook and online banking very nicely.
> It also handles stocks although I haven't tried that.
>
> Before I discovered MoneyDance I nearly became a slave of Quicken
> after my 15 year old CheckFree dos program was discontinued.
>
> It's a java program that runs on most platforms - of course I use it
> on Slack.

Does it print? The last demo version I tried would not print with CUPS and
Slackware. Maybe this is fixed?

Al

"A-B C." <atakeoutcanton@adams-blaketakeout.com> wrote in message news:<1085r655l2ai044@news20.forteinc.com>...
> Billy Watt wrote:
>
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> > A-B C. wrote:
> > |
> > | <editorial>
> > | With Quicken being the widest used financial package
> > |
> >
> > You forgot to put "in the US" beside that, AFAIK Sage is the most used
> > one here in the UK.
> >
>
> Hmmm. Never herad of that one. Anyway, I spent an hour this PM with CB-Tracker
> and it's come a long way since I saw it last. It still does not have a good
> P&L report, but other than that, it does most of what I need.
>
> I'd still like to have gnucash, but I don't have the time to fight with the
> install. I did my research and decided it's just not worth it at this time.
>
> Al


Just a heads-up here, but Gnucash, which recently released 1.8.9, does
indeed work with Slackware-9.1. There are a lot of dependencies, and I
have trouble compiling some of the recent gnome stuff because I'm not
using the most recent library X (more often than not it's
libgnomeprint and libgnomeprintgui.) I avoid this by not pointlessly
compiling things I don't need.

I'm not in the loop but I think the Gnucash people are working now to
port Gnucash entirely to Gnome2; right now it needs _some_ Gnome 1
files, but they can live alongside Gnome2 stuff-for the most part.

I liked Gnucash enough to abandon Quicken. Intuit stinks anyway.
Google for it; there's a site out there that covers in explicit detail
the installation. You'll need some files frome either 8.0 or 8.1 in
addition to 9.1. It's work alright but I don't care. If I did I'd use,
Oh, I don't know, SuSE or something.

Here, I'll do some of the work for ya:

http://rjmarq.org/gnucash.html


Enjoy,

r

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 23:53:52 -0700, "A-B C."
<atakeoutcanton@adams-blaketakeout.com> wrote:

>Austin Reed wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 09:11:33 -0700, "A-B C."
>> <atakeoutcanton@adams-blaketakeout.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I'd really like to give gnucash a try. If it works, I can get rid of Win4Lin
>>>and Quicken. It's the only Windoze program left that I use (except once a
>>>year booting to XP to do taxes!)
>>>
>>
>> I've been using MoneyDance www.moneydance.com for about a year.
>>
>> It's getting better and better, the developer is very responsive to
>> problems and there is a nice mailing list.
>> It handles my checkbook and online banking very nicely.
>> It also handles stocks although I haven't tried that.
>>
>> Before I discovered MoneyDance I nearly became a slave of Quicken
>> after my 15 year old CheckFree dos program was discontinued.
>>
>> It's a java program that runs on most platforms - of course I use it
>> on Slack.
>
>Does it print? The last demo version I tried would not print with CUPS and
>Slackware. Maybe this is fixed?
>
>Al

I _think_ it prints fine but my Slack 9.1 doesn't and I haven't yet
taken the time to fix it.

You might ask on their mailing list.

Austin

> > I've been using MoneyDance www.moneydance.com for about a year.
> >
> > It's getting better and better, the developer is very responsive to
> > problems and there is a nice mailing list.
> > It handles my checkbook and online banking very nicely.
> > It also handles stocks although I haven't tried that.
> >
> > Before I discovered MoneyDance I nearly became a slave of Quicken
> > after my 15 year old CheckFree dos program was discontinued.
> >
> > It's a java program that runs on most platforms - of course I use it
> > on Slack.
>
> Does it print? The last demo version I tried would not print with CUPS and
> Slackware. Maybe this is fixed?

Make sure that your /usr/sbin/lpc symlinked isn't mistakenly set to
/usr/bin/lpc-ng instead of lpc-cups. I think this is a result of
installing the lprNG package which probably overwrites the lpc
symlink.

To fix it, simply change the /usr/sbin/lpc symlink back to point to
/usr/sbin/lpc-cups. It's not a Moneydance problem, but it is the kind
of thing that may not show up in other programs (unless they are also
written in Java).

Here is the answer I received from the MD folks. Both are named "Reilly" so
maybe they are borthers!!!! :-) Anyway, here is what they sent me and my
comment below.

Dear Mr. Canton,

The problem is in Slackware, or more specifically, the lpr-ng or CUPS
installer. *Here is what we did to fix it:
* *1) Remove the lpr-ng package (using kpackage)
* *2) Run "su" or "sudo -s" from a terminal window to login as root,
then run the following three commands:
cd /usr/sbin
rm lpc
ln -s lpc-cups lpc


What this does is to remove the "lpc" program that currently points to
the lpr-ng version of lpc and set the "lpc" program to print to the
CUPS version of lpc (the way it should have been, before). *Since Java
programs (including Moneydance) use the "lpc" program to figure out
what printers are available, Java printing was not working because the
"lpc" program wasn't working correctly. *Please try the steps above and
let me know if it works for you.

Yours truly,

J.C. Reilly
Moneydance Support Specialist

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One of the "problems" with the Slack 9.1 installer is that it allows you to
install both lpring and CUPS and these sometimes conflict. On most of my apps
I have to change "lpr" to "lpr-cups". I'm not sure why, but it works. Maybe
the above will help.... but then I'll have to change all my apps back!!! I
wish that the Slack installer had some warnings to just installl one or the
other print systems.

Al