Difference between revisions of "GnuCash"

Revision as of 11:27, 25 March 2011

GnuCash is the leading GPL'ed Desktop Financial Manager Application. Appropriate for personal and small business use, it is meant to be easy to use and full of features.

Translation

(Parts of) this wiki have been translated into other languages or contain information for one specific language only. These are the index pages for these language dependent sections:

• de/GnuCash Deutsche Wiki-Seiten, im Entstehen (German pages, work in progress)
• pt/GnuCash Sítio Wiki em Português, em andamento. (Portuguese Wiki site, work in progress)

Documentation

• The GnuCash FAQ contains the collection of all frequently asked questions about GnuCash, including administration, accounting, and glossary questions.
• Online copy of the GnuCash-2.2.x help documentation
• List to external international documentation and a somewhat outdated list of available online documentation
• GnuCash Quick Start Guide For Business Users. Also, business users might be interested in a book by PacktPub, UK: GnuCash 2.4 Small Business Accounting, by Ashok Ramachandran
• Using GnuCash collects real life experiences with GnuCash. You may find (user) solutions here that are not covered by the documentation.
• Some more specific topics:
  • Using Scheduled Transactions
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Online Banking: Setting up OFXDirectConnect in GnuCash 2 and AqBanking (FinTS/HBCI)
  • How to create some Custom Reports
  • The GnuCash API and Python Bindings
  • Getting a Stack Trace
  • Logging messages and filtering detail.

Installation

OS/Distro specific annotations:

• FreeBSD
• MacOSXInstallation and MacOSX/Quartz
• Linux
  • Debian, Debian packages
  • Gentoo
  • Mandriva
  • RedHat: FC5, RHEL4, CentOS4.3, RHEL5 / SL5.
  • SuSE
  • Slackware
  • Ubuntu
• Solaris
• Microsoft Windows: GnuCash runs on Windows as well. Download the binary package from sourceforge.net.

Development

You may also want to check out http://www.gnucash.org/ for the latest news.

This part of the wiki is intended to become the main repository of GnuCash developer documentation. Some formerly static pages have been moved here from the Website http://www.gnucash.org, but the move is not yet complete. Some remaining static pages may be out of date. Wherever a wiki article disagrees with a static web page on the Website, the wiki article here is more likely to be correct.

Current discussion and bug tracking

• Mailing Lists and IRC chat
• Bugzilla bug database
• "Uservoice" Feature Request Forum

Current Source Code

• Subversion access
• Our Development Process
• Building GnuCash from source code.
• The Doxygen source documentation system and its wiki page.

Getting involved in the project

• How to get involved in Development - not only for programmers ...
• Documentation Update Instructions describe the process to change both the GnuCash "Guide" and the GnuCash "Help" manuals as well as any other parts of GnuCash documentation.
• How to edit and improve the Translations, but please keep an eye on the Translation Status.
• How to improve or add new Account Hierarchy Templates.
• Reminders for the Project Administration
• GSoC Google Summer of Code

Future developments

• Our Release Schedule
• Future Roadmap
• A general edited list of requested enhancements: WishList
• Particular enhancements:
  • Concept Guide
  • Budgets
  • Clickable Reports UI
• Old discussions about enhancement requests that have been implemented.
  • Upgrade from 1.8.9 to 1.8.10 and HBCI online banking support
• Discussion about the License

The GnuCash Project is a volunteer-driven organization. We need your help to survive and grow, to help others and to help the Project.