Split transactions, imports, and the db backend

[John Reynolds]

On Wednesday 17 September 2003 09:49 am, Scott Wood wrote:
> I'm useing REdhat 9, which included the 1.8.1 version.
>
> I've just downloaded the 1.8.5 rpm file, but get a Segmentation fault
> error when trying to execute rpm -ivh <file name>.

I believe you need to use -Uvh ... for Upgrade, as you already have an earlier 
package installed.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

John R.

>
> I've never installed a linux program before (other than what came with
> the OS, of course).  What does this mean?  How do I get around it?
> Thanks,  --sw
>
> On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 18:32, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > What version of gnucash.  If you're using anything before 1.8.5, upgrade.
> >
> > -derek
> >
> > Scott Wood <woodsc at nycap.rr.com> writes:
> > > I'm just i nthe process of trying out gnucash for the first time and
> > > have a couple of questions:
> > >
> > > 1)  My imports from QIF's always seem to misallocate split
> > > transactions.  e.g., in my checkign account, all of my paychecks, which
> > > are splits between deposits, taxes, and 401 contributions, end up as
> > > withdrawls.  And, for that matter, withdrawls that allocate to diffeent
> > > things (e.g., different expenses) are listed as deposits.  Some of them
> > > just seem to put things in the wrong places...i.e. the spit entries
> > > that are deposits should be withdrawls and the split entries and are
> > > withdrawls should be deposits.  But other entries seem to just not add
> > > things correctly...that is all the split entries are correct, but the
> > > net is listed as a withdrawl rather than a deposit.
> > >
> > > I suspect two issues:  one, the account is being treated as a liability
> > > rather than an asset, and two, soemthing funny is going on with the
> > > "account" that gnucash made out of the payees.  If I understand things
> > > correctly, the payees are should really just be text comments, rather
> > > than accounts.  Quicken accounts and categories should be gnucash
> > > accounts.
> > >
> > > 2)  I understand that gnucash uses a postgreSQL database back end. 
> > > Does this imply that I could connect to the database using some other
> > > front end for other purposes?  As a professional DBA (Oracle), the
> > > inability to fashion my own custom SQL was always a (minor) sore point
> > > with me. --sw
> > >
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