Re: Can't do "ledger payees" or "ledger accounts"

[Craig Earls]

I think you are looking the manual for version 3

On Friday, November 2, 2012, scot gabriel wrote:

I can't do "ledger payees" as described in 8.3.4 of the manual nor can I do "ledger accounts" as listed in 5.6 of the manual.  I'm running on debian and the default repository settings gave me ledger version 2.6.2.

Please help me understand what I'm missing.

Thank you

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[scot gabriel]

Thank you Craig.

I just tried to install the newer version using the debian instructions and the "For the Impatient" instructions on:

https://github.com/jwiegley/ledger/

It is failing because my debian only has cmake 2.8.2 and the process requires 2.8.5.  There is probably a simple answer but I don't know it as my debian skills are still modest at best.

Notes: I'm running debian Squeeze (6.0) and already did an update and upgrade with nothing left to download.  If i modify the dependency check in the CMakeLists.txt file to be 2.8.2 it still fails because of unknown cmake commands (of course, but in my ignorance I had to try!) :)

Guidance please?

[scot gabriel]

ok, so I didn't read the ENTIRE readme-1st file and at the bottom is the answer.

Thank you developer for being considerate/caring/thorough enough to do that.  I apologize for not reading the entire document before asking my question.

I will post when I'm done if there is a problem still.

<sigh>@myself :(

[scot gabriel]

started over with the manual directions to do the boost update and cmake update and then the manual instructions for building ledger and the final step (last line of the readme-1st file ends with "--python install".

when I run that line it comes back with:

acprep: ERROR: Unknown build phase: install

Any suggestions please?

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Scot Gabriel

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[Craig Earls]

Run ./acprep opt update

Then cd to the build/ledger/opt subdirectory and run "sudo make install"

I'll take a look at the readme-1st file.  I haven't looked at that in a while.

[scot gabriel]

apparently I'm missing something when I do the portion where I update cmake because "./acprep opt update" is telling me that cmake is still at 2.8.2 but I don't remember getting any errors when I went through the update process.

thoughts?

BTW: thank you for your help

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Scot Gabriel

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[Craig Earls]

Which distro are you on?

[scot gabriel]

Debian squeeze according to cat /etc/issue

[Craig Earls]

I will take a look today.  

[scot gabriel]

Thank you for your help, i was curious what you found?

Just so you know, I have done it on my live system and then tried it in two different virtual machines all with the same results which just means it is likely that my process is flawed (I'm very newbie-ish at linux).

At this point I have had to completely uninstall ledger and then re-install from the repositories and using the older version.

I will use 2.6.2 until someone can set me on the right track.

Thank you again,

Scot

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Scot Gabriel

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[Craig Earls]

I installed a fresh debian on a VM, but didn't get much further than that.  Too many kids! I'll try to squeeze it in today.