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Welcome to Ledger, a command-line accounting program.
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Quick start
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===========
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To build Ledger, you will need a fairly modern C++ compiler (gcc 2.95
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will not work), and at least these two libraries installed:
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gmp GNU multi-precision library
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pcre Perl regular expression library
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(On some GNU/Linux systems, the packages you need to install are
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called "gmp-dev" and "pcre-dev").
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If you wish to read Gnucash data files, you will also need two XML
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libraries, which may or may not be available in a single package (it
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depends on your distribution):
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xmlparse
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xmltok
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Once you have determined where the headers and libraries for the above
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packages are installed, run the script "configure", passing those
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paths. If you installed everything under /usr/local, you can probably
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just type "./configure". Otherwise, do this:
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./configure CPPFLAGS=-I<INCLUDE-PATH> LDFLAGS=-L<LIBRARY-PATH>
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If you need to specify multiple include or library paths, then do
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this:
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./configure CPPFLAGS="-I<PATH1> -I<PATH2>" LDFLAGS="-L<PATH1> -L<PATH2>"
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Once configure is done running, just type:
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make install
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Mailing List and IRC
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====================
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If you need help on how to use Ledger, or run into problems, you can
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join the Ledger mailing list at the following Web address:
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https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-discuss
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You can also find help at the #ledger channel on the IRC server
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irc.freenode.net.
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Building Ledger as a Python Module
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==================================
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If you have Python 2.2 or higher installed, and Boost.Python, then
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Ledger can also be built as a Python module, if --enable-python is
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passed to the configure script. This means you can interact with your
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Ledger data from Python, making it easy to write custom reports.
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This feature is mostly undocumented in version 2.0, although main.py
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is a working example.
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