Re: [Sheflug] Quicken legacy problem - was GnuCash configureproblem with Mandrake

[Neil R Porter <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 12:16, Craig Andrews wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 11:36, Neil R Porter wrote:
> > Well, I'm slightly embarrassed to say that I had no idea GnuCash was
> > included on the CDs!  So, after having thunked :), I looked, and there
> > it was.  Installed from there and all is well.  Apart from academic
> > interest I think I'll leave my GnuCash install from source woes as a
> 
> D'Oh! I was going to mention it, but I figured that the CDs include 1.67
> not 1.68. :-/
> 

hehe, your figuring served an ace on this occasion, but I just wanted to
basically test it out.

I have four machines here.

1) server, running Mandrake 8.2 doing all sorts of nice things for me.
2) laptop, running Mandrake 9.0 (what I am typing this on, nice nice)
3) testbox, running RH7.2 so I can mess around with config on there
before I mess up my dedicated server box out in the states :)
4) Quicken machine, running Windows XP Corp Pro and all that, that my
wife has put data into for about 4-5 years now.

All looks fine and dandy apart from 4 doesn't it?  Essentially a dumb
terminal apart from a couple of nice apps.  It feels to me like a wasted
machine.  All those things I could be using it for but... I must stop
getting like this, esp. after reading
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Advocacy.html .

So, this is what I wanted to look into.  A way to finally not 'need'
Windows here.  I don't think I needed bleeding edge GnuCash to do this. 
Just wanted to see how well GnuCash imported QIF files and what it
looked like - Richard mentioned it was good at the last meet.

Unfortunately, while it imported the accounts perfectly (as far as I
could tell), at the moment my thoughts are that my nearest and dearest
would spit the proverbial if she switched on her machine and was
confronted with Tux and GnuCash.  Shame.

Ah well, onwards and sideways I suppose.

Neil

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