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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.
There is no registration required to read this wiki or
and
install GnuCash
, only to edit this wiki.
Contents
Installation
Getting Help
Available Documentation
3.1
Documentation for Users
3.1.1
Primary Instructional Documents
3.1.2
GnuCash wiki
3.1.3
Third Party Documentation
3.2
Documentation for Developers
Getting involved in the GnuCash project
4.1
Mailing Lists
4.2
Filing Bugs and Enhancement Requests
4.3
Improving the Documentation
4.4
Localization
4.5
Developing the Application Code
4.5.1
Policy
4.5.2
Procedures
4.5.3
Other Development Notes
4.5.4
Future developments
4.5.5
Historical Information
Installation
GnuCash has versions that run on
Windows
macOS
, and many different flavors of
Linux
and
BSD
Installation instructions for the different operating systems under which GnuCash operates are included at
Installation
Getting Help
If you have trouble using GnuCash, and the various documentation sources haven't helped you--or if you want to give some feedback, you can get help in several ways. See
Getting Help
for these options.
Available Documentation
Documentation for Users
Primary Instructional Documents
GnuCash offers two primary instructional documents:
Manual
- the reference for details of operating specific GnuCash menus, dialogs, and windows
Guide
- a concise
introduction
to double-entry accounting and
tutorials
on using GnuCash to perform a variety of accounting tasks. It is highly recommended that new users read at least the
Getting Started
section of the
Guide
These documents are accessible via the
Help
menu in the program, probably requiring Linux users to install an additional package called something like
gnucash-docs
using their package manager, or from the
Documentation page
on our
website
which also links the following variants:
Translations
of the
Manual
are available in
German
Italian
Japanese
, and
Portuguese
, and the
Guide
is also available in
simplified Chinese
The translations are not always recent and sometimes incomplete, but easier to understand from non-English users.
Other Formats
consist of PDF, ePub, and mobi, or read html documents online
Nightly Builds
contain the work in progress from the git repository for the stable branch
GnuCash wiki
This wiki includes extensive information regarding all aspects of GnuCash, contributed by the developers and users of GnuCash. Information in the wiki covers a broad variety of topics, and includes detailed technical information, as well as information that applies to specific use cases. Of particular interest on the wiki are:
The
GnuCash FAQ
, which contains a collection of frequently asked questions about GnuCash, including administration, accounting, and glossary questions
Using GnuCash
, which collects real life experiences using GnuCash. You may find (user) solutions here that are not covered by the documentation.
Third Party Documentation
Third Party Documentation in Several Languages can be found in
Documentation
Documentation for Developers
The
Application programming interface
(API) is intended for people who want to use the GnuCash engine
libgnucash
in their own project:
stable
branch
is daily generated from the sources using
Doxygen
future
branch
will lead to the next mayor release. It will be activated after the first commit on that branch.
Using the API
shows how to use it.
In addition it may be handy sometimes to have an overview of which parts of the gnucash code depend on which other parts.
Dependency Graphs
explains how to generate a dependency graph for this purpose.
Getting involved in the GnuCash project
The GnuCash Project is a volunteer-driven organization. We need your help to ensure that GnuCash survives and grows, and we need your help to help others.
There are many ways to contribute your knowledge and experience. Before you dig in, you may want to check out the
GnuCash website
for the
latest news
Note
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
GnuCash website
, 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.
Here are a number of ways to get involved.
Mailing Lists
Subscribing to the mailing lists, and asking and answering questions there, is an excellent way to begin contributing the the success of GnuCash. See
Mailing Lists
for more.
Filing Bugs and Enhancement Requests
Occasionally, GnuCash will not work the way it was designed to work--or you have an idea for making GnuCash better. Improvements and fixes can be submitted using the
Bugzilla
bug tracker; more general suggestions can be made via the
Uservoice
pages.
Improving the Documentation
Documentation Update Instructions
. This page describes the process to change both the GnuCash
Tutorial and Concepts Guide
and the Manual.
Localization
Translations
gives an overview of this process.
How to adjust or create new
Account Hierarchy Templates
Developing the Application Code
Policy
Our
Development Process
Coding Standards
Testing
Procedures
Git
access
Building
GnuCash from source code.
Some notes about the
GnuCash XML format
for the XML Backend.
The schema for the
SQL
Backend.
Adding Preferences
: How to add new preferences.
Creating
Custom Reports
Python Bindings
Other Development Notes
Reminders for the
Project Administration
Mentions of other potentially useful
Coder Tools
(mostly profilers)
Future developments
Our
Release Schedule
Future
Roadmap
Historical Information
Outdated
WishList
Budget History
Credit Notes
Old discussions
about enhancement requests that have been implemented.
Discussion about the
License
Special events
There was a
Bounty Program
in June / July 2013
GSoC
Google Summer of Code
Retrieved from "
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