Comments on: Install GnuCash financial-accounting software in Ubuntu

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:42:51 +0000

## Please Ignore my last post - I have moved on. I am now getting the following error - Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

sudo apt-get install gnucash
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package gnucash is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package gnucash has no installation candidate

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:14:17 +0000

I am not able to edit the sources.list file. It looks like it is owned by root and I do not appear to have the root password. I have only recently installed Ubuntu. I do not recall being asked for a root password but I have obviously setup my own password. Thanks in advance,

By: Nice Nick

Nice Nick — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:09:43 +0000

I couldn’t do it until I changed vi to gedit

Now we will create a menu entry

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/GnuCash.desktop

and you need to enter the following lines

[Desktop Entry]
Name=GnuCash
Comment=GnuCash Personal Finance
Exec=gnucash
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/gnucash/gnucash-icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Office;

Save and exit the file.

Now you need to refresh the Gnome Panel without logout using the following command

killall gnome-panel

This worked for me, Ubuntu 6.0.6 LTS. GnuCash is not in Application / Office / GnuCash

Thanks all

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:21:25 +0000

Very useful and easy to follow instructions.

Installation worked flawlessly.

By: Admin

Admin — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 07:00:39 +0000

I am not sure did you read the complete article i have clearly menctioned about the file name,how to edit and what to enter in that file

By: v

Mon, 25 Dec 2006 21:50:49 +0000

I don’t understand part of the instructions! You wrote: “You need to edit the following file to access your gnucash application under Application —> Office
Now we will create a menu entry”

What following file? You didn’t specify the name of the file to edit!
I have to say, I’m new to Linux in general and the whole thing just doesn’t make any sense. Why is it so hard for people to give simple instructions? Why do you always assume that whomever is reading your instruction actually have any knowledge of Linux?
I mean it can’t be that difficult……..

By: Isaac Rabee

Isaac Rabee — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:20:35 +0000

I’m trying to install GnuCash Menu entry on Ubuntu, but I have problem to save desktop file in vi. Is there any other way to do this?

By: Admin

Admin — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:43:36 +0000

try to check here for all related for gnucash http://packages.ubuntulinux.org/edgy/gnome/gnucash

By: Don Marek

Don Marek — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:24:49 +0000

This may be a dumb question, but will get the latest gnucash 2.02.

I did this on my desktop almost a month ago based on information from another source and ended up with 1.8, but maybe I got the dependencies for the next version. I’m not sure.

I have the Debian install package, but is kind of irritating that these things do not automatically find the libraries or at least list them so I can get them installed.

I consider myself an intermediate beginner Linux user, so I am still picking up on some of these things.