glfs/xsoft/office/gnucash.xml
Randy McMurchy 7aeaa620a8 Updated to GnuCash-1.8.12
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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
%general-entities;
<!ENTITY gnucash-download-http "http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/gnucash-&gnucash-version;.tar.gz">
<!ENTITY gnucash-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.at.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/gnucash/sources/stable/gnucash-&gnucash-version;.tar.gz">
<!ENTITY gnucash-src-md5sum "81e7c703db56bb203e106664157779cc">
<!ENTITY gnucash-size "8.2 MB">
<!ENTITY gnucash-buildsize "123 MB (additional 22 MB for Help documentation)">
<!ENTITY gnucash-time "3.2 SBU (additional 0.3 SBU to run the test suite)">
<!ENTITY gnucash-docs-version "1.8.5">
<!ENTITY gnucash-docs-download "http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/gnucash-docs-&gnucash-docs-version;.tar.gz">
<!ENTITY gnucash-docs-md5sum "9758d8e523530c2509912761e327a9d5">
]>
<sect1 id="gnucash" xreflabel="GnuCash-&gnucash-version;">
<?dbhtml filename="gnucash.html" ?>
<sect1info>
<othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
<date>$Date$</date>
<keywordset>
<keyword role="package">gnucash-&gnucash-version;.tar</keyword>
<keyword role="ftpdir">gnucash</keyword>
</keywordset>
</sect1info>
<title>GnuCash-&gnucash-version;</title>
<indexterm zone="gnucash">
<primary sortas="a-GnuCash">GnuCash</primary>
</indexterm>
<sect2 role="package">
<title>Introduction to GnuCash</title>
<para><application>GnuCash</application> is a personal finance
manager.</para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<listitem>
<para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gnucash-download-http;"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gnucash-download-ftp;"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download MD5 sum: &gnucash-src-md5sum;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download size: &gnucash-size;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Estimated disk space required: &gnucash-buildsize;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Estimated build time: &gnucash-time;</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<listitem>
<para>Help documentation: <ulink url="&gnucash-docs-download;"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download MD5 sum: &gnucash-docs-md5sum;</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">GnuCash Dependencies</bridgehead>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
<para role="required"><xref linkend="oaf"/>,
<xref linkend="gtkhtml1"/>,
<xref linkend="libghttp"/>,
<xref linkend="gwrap"/>, and
<xref linkend="perl-xml-parser"/></para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
<para role="optional"><xref linkend="postgresql"/>,
<xref linkend="guppi"/>,
<xref linkend="scrollkeeper"/>,
<xref linkend="doxygen"/>,
<xref linkend="graphviz"/>,
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/guile/">Guile-www</ulink>, and
<ulink url="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/">Electric Fence</ulink></para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (for On-Line Banking)</bridgehead>
<para role="optional"><ulink
url="http://libofx.sourceforge.net/">LibOFX</ulink>
(requires <xref linkend="opensp"/> and <xref linkend="curl"/>),
<ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ktoblzcheck">KtoBlzCheck</ulink>,
and <ulink url="http://www.aquamaniac.de/aqbanking/">AqBanking</ulink>
(requires <ulink
url="http://gwenhywfar.sourceforge.net/">Gwenhywfar</ulink>
and also see <ulink
url="http://www.libchipcard.de/">libchipcard2</ulink>)</para>
<para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
<ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/gnucash"/></para>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of GnuCash</title>
<para>Install <application>GnuCash</application> by running the following
commands:</para>
<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/^\(host_os=.*\)$/\1-gnu/' configure &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome-1.4 \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--disable-guppi \
--disable-error-on-warning &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>
<para>To test the results, issue <command>make check</command>. All tests
should pass. An easy way to look at the results of the tests is to issue
<command>grep -A1 ============== check.log</command> (this is assuming you
redirected the output from the tests to the aforementioned filename).</para>
<para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
<screen role='root'><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
<para>If desired, create a symbolic link from the
<application>GnuCash</application> documentation directory to the
system-wide documentation directory using the following command as the
<systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
<screen role='root'><userinput>ln -v -s /opt/gnome-1.4/share/gnucash/doc \
/usr/share/doc/gnucash-&gnucash-version;</userinput></screen>
<para>If desired, create symbolic links to the
<application>GnuCash</application> <filename>.desktop</filename> and icon
files in the system-wide directories using the following commands as the
<systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
<screen role='root'><userinput>install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/pixmaps/gnucash &amp;&amp;
ln -v -s /opt/gnome-1.4/share/pixmaps/gnucash/gnucash-icon.png \
/usr/share/pixmaps/gnucash &amp;&amp;
ln -v -s /opt/gnome-1.4/share/gnome/apps/Applications/gnucash.desktop \
/usr/share/applications</userinput></screen>
<para>If you want to install the Help documentation (requires
<xref linkend="scrollkeeper"/> to be installed), unpack the additional
tarball, change into the
<filename class='directory'>gnucash-docs-&gnucash-docs-version;</filename>
source directory and issue the following commands as an unprivileged
user:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome-1.4 \
--localstatedir=/var/lib &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>
<para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
<screen role='root'><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="commands">
<title>Command Explanations</title>
<para><command>sed -i 's/^\(host_os=.*\)$/\1-gnu/' configure</command>:
This command is used to fix a broken <command>configure</command> script.
Without it, no shared libraries are built, and the program will not
function properly.</para>
<para><parameter>--prefix=/opt/gnome-1.4</parameter>:
<application>GnuCash</application>-&gnucash-version; is a
<application>GNOME</application>-1.4 application.</para>
<para><parameter>--sysconfdir=/etc</parameter>: This installs configuration
files in <filename class='directory'>/etc/gnucash</filename> instead of
<filename class='directory'>/opt/gnome-1.4/etc/gnucash</filename>.</para>
<para><parameter>--disable-guppi</parameter>: This compiles
<application>GnuCash</application> without support for creating
GUI graphs and plots. Remove this option if you have
<application>Guppi</application> installed.</para>
<para><parameter>-disable-error-on-warning</parameter>: Without this
parameter the build will fail because a warning is generated. This option
forces the build to ignore the warning.</para>
<para><option>--enable-sql</option>: This parameter is required if you want
to build in SQL support using <application>PostgreSQL</application>.</para>
<para><option>--enable-ofx</option>: This parameter is required if you want
to build in on-line banking support using
<application>LibOFX</application>.</para>
<para><option>--enable-hbci</option>: This parameter is required if you
want to build in on-line banking support using
<application>AqBanking</application>. See
<filename>doc/README.HBCI</filename> in the
<application>GnuCash</application> source tree for complete
information.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="configuration">
<title>Configuring GnuCash</title>
<sect3>
<title>Configuration Information</title>
<para>If you wish to use <application>GnuCash</application> to retrieve
stock price quotes and stock historical information, you'll need to
install the following <application>Perl</application> modules:
<xref linkend="perl-lwp"/>, <xref linkend="perl-date-manip"/>,
<xref linkend="perl-html-parser"/>, <xref linkend="perl-finance-quote"/>
and <xref linkend="perl-finance-quotehist"/>.</para>
<!--
<note>
<para><application>GnuCash</application> must be run as
<systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> once before use. Simply
executing <command>gnucash</command> from an <application>X</application>
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 <application>GnuCash</application> must update scheme catalogs
before it is used.</para>
</note>
-->
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="content">
<title>Contents</title>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>dump-finance-quote, gnc-prices, gnc-test-env, gnucash,
gnucash-config, gnucash-env, gnucash-make-guids, gnucash-run-script
and update-finance-quote</seg>
<seg>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
<filename class='directory'>/opt/gnome-1.4/lib/gnucash</filename></seg>
<seg>/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</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<variablelist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
<?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
<varlistentry id="gnucash-prog">
<term><command>gnucash</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>is a personal finance manager.</para>
<indexterm zone="gnucash gnucash-prog">
<primary sortas="b-gnucash">gnucash</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>