gnucash

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 03:40 -0700, Paul Dickson wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:09:12 -0500, bmike1 wrote:
> 
> > well, I thought to myself that I would use kmymoney2 instead of gnucash. What 
> > a confusing program!
> > How should I get gnucash?	
> 
> yum install gnucash
> 
> I'm currently using 1.8.12 for an astronomy club.  Read the gnucash docs
> about how double-entry bookkeeping works, otherwise you'll make a mess of
> things.  But once you get used to it most transaction become trivial.
> Only the transactions where a member has a receipt for reimbursement,
> wants to apply this towards dues, a magazine renewal, and the remainder
> as a check will cause to to think a minute (all these entries add up to
> zero in double-entry bookkeeping).
> 
> I was treasurer of that club during 2002-2003 and used gnucash throughout
> that period.  I even had to build my own RPMs as this was before Fedora
> Extras (and I had to test some fixes to bugs I reported, too).
> 
> I'm hoping the 1.9.x series goes fairly quickly (switching to gtk2).
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I have gathered that a switch to gtk2 has been promised for a long time
now and that the code is a bit messy and difficult to change.

Craig