Re: [GNC] GnuCash V3.5 Not Used By My GnuCash Database

2019-04-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I don’t know if you even had 3.4 installed unless you knew for a fact you were once running it. (If that is the case, you might have earlier removed 2.6.19) It looks like you downloaded the 3.5 source. (you mentioned it contained directories and files) You can build from that source download

Re: [GNC] GnuCash V3.5 Not Used By My GnuCash Database

2019-04-18 Thread Colin Law
On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 at 21:27, Lawrence Joy wrote: > > I did 'sudo apt remove gnucash' and got: > > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer > required: list of packages > Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. > The following packages will be REMOVED: gnucash

Re: [GNC] GnuCash V3.5 Not Used By My GnuCash Database

2019-04-18 Thread Lawrence Joy via gnucash-user
I did 'sudo apt remove gnucash' and got: - The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: list of packages - Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. - The following packages will be REMOVED: gnucash [note that it does not state what version will be

Re: [GNC] GnuCash V3.5 Not Used By My GnuCash Database

2019-04-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
#1, Before doing anything else, follow Colin’s suggestion to: `sudo apt remove gnucash` which will uninstall 2.6.19 (this is the version which is in the 18.04 repo) It may even remove *all* installed versions, but that’s okay because then you can install just the one you want. I’ll answer your

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Recording dividend payoffs

2019-04-18 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
John, That was a punch line, and a very good one. I respect your experience and the time you have/are spending with GnuCash support (and perhaps even development). But just because I am new to accounting and you've spend a long time in accounting along with managing the company that pay

Re: [GNC] GnuCash V3.5 Not Used By My GnuCash Database

2019-04-18 Thread Colin Law
To remove the version that you installed using apt install then do sudo apt remove gnucash Do that first and see what state you are in then. Before doing anything make sure your backup of your accounts file is up to date, just in case, though installing/removing should not affect it. Colin On

Re: [GNC] GnuCash V3.5 Not Used By My GnuCash Database

2019-04-18 Thread Lawrence Joy via gnucash-user
Adrien,Originally I did a 'sudo app download' of GnuCash, which loaded V2.?.? to my Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS OS somewhere. Under that version of GnuCash I started a book or database of accounts. I saw an announcement that V3.4 was available and I like to be up to date, so I went to the GnuCash

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Recording dividend payoffs

2019-04-18 Thread John Ralls
Justin, It's very simple: I've many years of experience with both accounting and GnuCash. I've run a company which paid dividends and used GnuCash to account for it. It works fine the way it is, it just doesn't work the way you want to use it. Too bad. Then there's your admission to Maf: > >

Re: [GNC] Column Width

2019-04-18 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
Yes, it's GTK bug. I had my doubts. I could never install gtk+3.0 package as mentioned in the wiki. There were some dependency issues. Debian Stretch doesn't have them yet. Anyway, I can manage it for now as Lithium/Buster is just around the corner. - Regards, Justin Mathew

Re: [GNC] Logging into the forum

2019-04-18 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
Thanks Derek. - Regards, Justin Mathew mjus...@protonmail.com Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, April 18, 2019 8:24 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > Justin Mathew mjus...@protonmail.com writes: > > > Thanks Derek, > > Is there any reason why we

Re: [GNC] Column Width

2019-04-18 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
Yes, almost all are covered in the documentation. Our documentation is really great. I am reading the concepts and tutorials now. Just wondering why / isn't working while entering dates in my gnucash! GnuCash 3.5 complied from source into Bunsenlabs Helium (Debian Stretch). - Regards, Justin

Re: [GNC] Logging into the forum

2019-04-18 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, Justin Mathew writes: > Thanks Derek, > > Is there any reason why we do not have an official forum? Or is it > that users are happier with mailing list? > > This is my first mailing list subscription, hence I may not be aware > of those advantages it has over forums (if any). Many

Re: [GNC] Return of Capital

2019-04-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Interesting that GC is throwing that Trading split in at all. The transaction balances without it. I’ll presume this brokerage account for the fund and the cash are both in AUD also? Does manually adding: Dr.(buy) Trading:CURRENCY:AUD $500 Satisfy GC and avoid the pop-up? The two Trading

Re: [GNC] Column Width

2019-04-18 Thread Derek Atkins
Hmm. Justin Mathew writes: > GnuCash 3.5 complied from source into Bunsenlabs Helium (Debian Stretch). There was definitely some keyboard issues in 3.3, but it should have been fixed since then. Unless, of course, there's a GTK bug and you're hitting that. There's no reason you should not be

Re: [GNC] Column Width

2019-04-18 Thread D via gnucash-user
Which is again covered in the documentation at https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/chapter_txns.html#txns-register-oview On April 18, 2019, at 3:59 PM, Art Chimes wrote: Another date tip: You can increment/decrement your date using the plus and minus keys. > Message: 1 > Date:

Re: [GNC] Run GnuCash Upgrades Side-by-side With Older Versions

2019-04-18 Thread Fred Bone
On 18 April 2019 at 10:51, Justin Mathew said: > Can the OP or anyone update whether the portable version worked parallel > to the installed version? > While I haven't used a recent edition via PortableApps, I did try v3 that way when it first came out, and it worked exactly as expected -

Re: [GNC] How to treat benefit payments from government?

2019-04-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Michael, Yep, I’m well aware. I just looked over my Mom’s filing before she mailed it off. Certainly, having to massage the raw number two or three times with various figures from multiple lines on several different schedules just to figure out if her SS payments were taxable I can attest you

Re: [GNC] How to treat benefit payments from government?

2019-04-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/17/2019 6:16 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Someone on the list from Canada (even better, a local CPA) should offer better advice, but the first question you probably want answered is, “Is this taxable next year?” That will likely influence how you record it now. Regards, Adrien Adrian,

Re: [GNC] Run GnuCash Upgrades Side-by-side With Older Versions

2019-04-18 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
Try that portable package. Good luck. - Regards, Justin Mathew mjus...@protonmail.com Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, April 18, 2019 6:28 PM, Greg Feneis wrote: > I (OP) haven't got around to trying it yet. Originally

Re: [GNC] Run GnuCash Upgrades Side-by-side With Older Versions

2019-04-18 Thread Greg Feneis
I (OP) haven't got around to trying it yet. Originally I upgraded from 2.6.21 to 3.5 and hand a problem with it, so went back to 2.6.21. I understand that problem's been fixed. So I thought I'd try it out. But I thought I would try to install it without uninstalling 2.6.21. I'm still hoping

Re: [GNC] Linux build from source

2019-04-18 Thread Jimmy R via gnucash-user
David, I read all that thanks. Going to play around with it on Mint I'm just used to installing by PPA from package maintainers. I just have to worry about MSQL & Java versions and his builds are listed. Here is an example of my security camera software.

Re: [GNC] Cannot run v3 on Windows 7 since a year

2019-04-18 Thread Oliver Heidelbach via gnucash-user
I reinstalled the current version again to see the log. It does not write any log file since the Visual C++ runtime pops with that error. I don't know if this helps, but I tried to run guile.exe from the command line and this happened: ### C:\Program Files

Re: [GNC] Convert from Quicken by date rather than account -- recommended?

2019-04-18 Thread Cricket Onebit
Very glad I asked. There are a lot of transfers in 14000 transactions. Thanks! On Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 3:43 PM David Carlson, wrote: > Cricket, > > The main disadvantage to that method is that the match existing feature > does not detect duplicates within the same file, so all transfers will >

Re: [GNC] Run GnuCash Upgrades Side-by-side With Older Versions

2019-04-18 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
Can the OP or anyone update whether the portable version worked parallel to the installed version? - Regards, Justin Mathew mjus...@protonmail.com Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, April 16, 2019 6:32 PM, Justin Mathew

Re: [GNC] Logging into the forum

2019-04-18 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
Thanks Derek, Is there any reason why we do not have an official forum? Or is it that users are happier with mailing list? This is my first mailing list subscription, hence I may not be aware of those advantages it has over forums (if any). - Regards, Justin Mathew mjus...@protonmail.com

Re: [GNC] Logging into the forum

2019-04-18 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, On Thu, April 18, 2019 6:22 am, Justin Mathew via gnucash-user wrote: > Hi > > Can't I login to http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/ using my email > address subscribed to mailing list and the password provided? I tried and > it didn't work. > > Do I have to register a new account? Nabble

Re: [GNC] Logging into the forum

2019-04-18 Thread Liz
On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:22:43 + Justin Mathew via gnucash-user wrote: > Hi > > Can't I login to http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/ using my email > address subscribed to mailing list and the password provided? I tried > and it didn't work. So you have answered your question correctly.

Re: [GNC] Column Width

2019-04-18 Thread Art Chimes
Another date tip: You can increment/decrement your date using the plus and minus keys. > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:29:11 +0100 > From: Michael Hendry > To: Justin Mathew > Cc: Derek Atkins , "gnucash-user@gnucash.org" > > Subject: Re: [GNC] Column Width > > > On 17 Apr

[GNC] Logging into the forum

2019-04-18 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
Hi Can't I login to http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/ using my email address subscribed to mailing list and the password provided? I tried and it didn't work. Do I have to register a new account? - Regards, Justin Mathew mjus...@protonmail.com Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.

Re: [GNC] Installing 3.5 deb packages on Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo

2019-04-18 Thread David Cousens
Adrien, dpkg -l | grep will give the details of the installed packages to check against the required packages list. 19.04 may have more recent versions of some packages than what GnuCash specifies. In many cases this won't matter unless changes in the package directly affect calls made to it by

Re: [GNC] Installing 3.5 deb packages on Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo

2019-04-18 Thread Colin Law
I can confirm that Stephen's deb files don't work with Ubuntu 19.04. To remove the half installed packages you can run sudo apt remove gnucash-common gnucash python3-gnucash sudo apt autoremove Colin Colin On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 at 07:21, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > So, I’m jumping a day ahead

Re: [GNC] Need help with a Savings account

2019-04-18 Thread Fred Bone
On 17 April 2019 at 19:12, ToddAndMargo said: > On 4/16/19 1:24 AM, Fred Bone wrote: > >> So I should switch my opening balance to a negative number? > > > Possibly. It rather depends on whether your account was overdrawn when > > you started your current books. > > My paper bank book and bank

Re: [GNC] Return of Capital

2019-04-18 Thread cicko
Hi! Thanks for the feedback. Let me try to answer both your and John's questions and perhaps a few details along the way. > Let's say there is $1000 in 100 shares in IPE account. 2000-01-01 * Bought IPE Assets:Investments:Broker:Shares:IPE100 IPE {10.00 USD} [2000-01-01] @ 10.00 USD

[GNC] Installing 3.5 deb packages on Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo

2019-04-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
So, I’m jumping a day ahead and I upgraded my Ubuntu Cosmic 18.10 installation to 19.04. Now, attempting to install Stephen’s 3.5 .deb build gets me this: ``` gnucash depends on libboost-date-time1.65.1; however: Package libboost-date-time1.65.1 is not installed. gnucash depends on