Install GnuCash Financial Accounting software in Ubuntu
Posted by admin on January 10th, 2007 
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Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a check book register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports.
Install Gnucash In ubuntu
You need to make sure you have universe source list under /etc/apt/sources.list file.if you have already then follow these commands to install
sudo apt-get install gnucash
This will install all the required packages for gnucash.Now if you want to open this application go to Application –—> Office—>GnuCash Finance Management
Here you can see the GnuCash application is loading
Once it loaded fully you can see the following screen here you can select the create a new set of accounts option click ok and follow the on screen options
Once it opens completely you should see the following screen
GnuCash Version details
GnuCash Cash in Wallet screenshot
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January 10th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Let me guess: That’s for Edgy? For Dapper you have to compile it yourself and will get a dependency hell.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
yes this one i have installed in ubuntu edgy
January 11th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
So let’s hope for a backport some day.
February 28th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
So that’s installing, 2.0.5 is now out, how do I upgrade?
Thanks
Patrick
March 23rd, 2007 at 12:03 am
Hi
I am a newbie to Linux and am looking for a personal finance package like GnuCash and some simple installation instructions aimed at someone who’s idea of installation is placing a disk in a CD drive. Thanks in advance.
March 25th, 2007 at 12:12 am
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,
March 25th, 2007 at 12:42 am
## Please Ignore my last two posts - 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
April 4th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
Hi!
I’m new in ubuntu 6, I try to install the gnucash 6. I am not able to edit the sources.list file. I don’t know what that mean and to get to edit the sources.Can anyone please explain how to do that! Thank you in advance.
April 5th, 2007 at 10:04 am
first you need to use the following command to edit the file
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
or you can install vim editor and you can use this to edit the file
sudo apt-get install vim
then you need to edit the file
sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
July 3rd, 2007 at 2:17 pm
I installed gnuCash. Used ’sudo apt-get install gnucash’. Worked a treat, however, the software is NOT simple and easy to use. Way over the top for home finances.
August 16th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Please give detail instruction from Edit, what part are we editing?
December 8th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Have a look at the below link for Edit instructions :
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/CommandLine
December 12th, 2007 at 2:29 am
I’m using Xubuntu Hardy Alpha1, and the only real snag is the fact that gnucash won’t install. It wants a library version 4.x and Hardy has only 5.x. Here’s hoping for a fix soon.