[PLUG] GnuCash

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Fri Dec 14 05:45:16 UTC 2007


On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:05:41 -0800
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo:

> > > Sql-ledger is listed in Synaptic, so I installed it to take it for a quick
> > > spin. But I ran into a wall. Since it is web based it did not install a
> > > launch item, and I can't figure out how to start using it. I suppose I
> > > need to create a database, but how do I do that and how do I access it?
> > 
> >    Do you have apache and postgres installed?
> > 
> >    The sql-ledger site has detailed installation instructions. Once
> > installed, I open a firefox tab and type
> >                      http://localhost/sql-ledger/login.pl
> 
> I didn't have postres installed, but after installing it, I still get a
> page loading error on the above. As for apache, I have apache2,
> apache2.2-common, apache2-mpm-worker and apache2-utils installed. There
> are about a dozen more listed in Synaptic. Which ones do I need?
> 
> > The other useful script is admin.pl.
> 
> I also went to the ledger-sql website, but couldn't make heads or tails
> of the installation instructions. Evidently there is a setup script,
> but I couldn't figure out how to get it. Also, if ledger-sql is listed
> in Synaptic, the package is brain-dead for failing to install
> everything necessary to use it.
> 
> Now, of course, I really want to try it. If it's this hard to install
> and set up it must be seriously awesome. 

I give up. I can't get it installed. Something is missing and
http://localhost/sql-ledger/login.pl just gives me an error message.
I've installed everything that the web site says to install, but it
won't work. It would help if I had half an idea what any of these
things are -- apache, postgres and all the other things are unknown to
me.

Meantime, I stumbled across Quasar:

http://linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/5692/2/

It seems to have had no further work done on it since 2005. But what is
there looks good. Has anyone tried it? 

Is there anything else out there that can do invoicing with automatic
item insertion from an inventory product list?



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