Was: Problems installing gnucash-1.8.7

[Derek Atkins]

"Bobby Goins" <goins at iglou.com> writes:

> I notice that the help and tutorial parts don't work.  That is to say 
> that I get the outline for the topics, but cannot open the topics.  The 
> error I get says that "the URL cannot be found."  Does this only work if 
> one is "on-line", or are there http files that were supposed to be 
> installed also?

Did you download and install the gnucash-docs package?

> Also, I added GNUcash to my menu structure using 'menudrake' (Mandrake 
> 9.1).  When I installed gnucash-1.8.1 that came with the distribution, I 
> had a really nice icon for gnucash that was already set up in the menu 
> system.  Is that icon available, and are there special settings that I 
> need to include in 'menudrake' to run gnucash-1.8.7?

I suspect the icon came from Mandrake...

> Thanks.
> 
> Now, if I can only get my accounts, from my MS Money 2001 QIF import, to 
> balance.  How did that retained earnings account work???????????????  

1.8.1 had an extremely broken QIF import.  You should import the QIF
again using 1.8.7 and start over.

-derek

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