Talk:Ubuntu

I am running Ubuntu server 6.06 LTS downloaded 2.02 and attempted build the sources and it failed because I did not have the intltool package installed. I did not run the apt-get build-dep gnucash, still learning the debian way. But configure did not pick up my error so does the main page need an edit to include this note? Or this the wrong place?

Can you post the exact error message? In fact intltool might be required for the build anyway, and if yes, ./configure should check for it. --Cstim 04:41, 17 October 2006 (EDT)

Building 2.2.0 on Feisty

I am running into dependency errors trying to run configure script to build 2.2.0 on Feisty. First it was complaining that it cannot find Guile, which I solved by installing all dependency packages for 2.0.3 included in Feisty (it's not 2.0.5 as stated on the page.) Now it is complaining that Package gconf-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path, which I don't know how to fix. Help? Thanks!

Please take a look at README.dependencies and make sure you have installed all the necessary -dev packages.

Ok, installing libgconf2-dev along with libxml2-dev, libgnomeui-dev, libgoffice-0-dev, libgtkhtml-3.14-dev solved the problem. Thanks again.

Attorney Billing -- Evergreen Accounts

I am a lawyer trying to wean myself off Timeslips attorney billing software on Windows. I've been using Ubuntu since March 2009, and I am impressed with it and FOSS in general. OO.o is great--I wouldn't go back to Microsoft Office to save my soul . . . well, I might do it for that, but you get my point.

I practice family law, and charge hourly for my time, and a lower hourly rate for my assistant's time. Costs, such as filing fees, server fees, and the like, are billed on a cost or reimbursement basis. I use the "evergreen" approach; meaning that each client is supposed to maintain a minimum positive balance (which Timeslips calls "client funds"), and replenish that minimum positive balance after each monthly statement. When the case is concluded, any unearned client funds are returned to the client. Timeslips is set up for that, although not very well. In my practice, a client's "evergreen" amount is always the same amount as the original retainer amount. If a client's minimum positive balance amount is $2,000, and the first month's statement is for $2,400, the first statement will allow me to withdraw the $2,000 from client funds, leaving $0 in client funds, and an A/R of $400. If the client then pays $2,400; $400 will apply against the A/R, and the remaining $2,000 will go into "client funds." If the client pays only $500 against that statement, $400 will apply against the A/R and the remaining $100 will go into client's funds.

Timeslips requires that when a client's payment includes BOTH A/R AND client funds, that the A/R be entered separately in the A/R register, and the client-funds amount be entered separately in client funds. I'm not very swift at accounting, but this never made sense to me.

My question, for starters, is how to maintain an evergreen account in Gnucash, where some client payments are A/R's and some are client funds?

John