Unbalanced balance sheet

[Derrick Ashby]

Derek Atkins wrote:

>Hi,
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>Please be sure to CC: gnucash-user on all replies...
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Yeah, sorry, I forgot.

>Quoting Derrick Ashby <daeroncs at fastmail.fm>:
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>>Okay, I've synced my testing machine (this involved about two days of 
>>downloading and compiling kde, open office, etc). Then I installed 
>>gnucash 1.8.9, on the theory that at least I'd have some chance of 
>>having all the dependencies I would need. That involved installing a 
>>fair amount of gnome. Having done that I found that I needed to install 
>>cvs (duh!). Now, when I type in the cvs command given on the gnucash cvs 
>>page and enter the password "guest" I get an error:
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>>Fatal error: aborting
>>daeroncs: no such user.
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>Did you follow the instructions at http://www.gnucash.org/en/hacking.phtml to
>login to the cvs server?  This is the page you get if you click on "CVS Access"
>on the GnuCash website.
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Yes, I did - that's where I got the password from.  Nor did I commit any 
typos when I entered the command line string. I checked. Do I need to do 
any setup of cvs locally first, and if so, what?

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>>What am I missing, here? I've never used cvs before, and none of the 
>>documentation I've looked at seems a lot of help. (As with most Linux 
>>documentation it assumes intimate knowledge of the product in the first 
>>place) Learning how to use cvs has been added to my (very long) list of 
>>Things To Do, but in the mean time I just want to look at the Balance 
>>Sheet report, as requested...
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>You have two options if you just want to look at the report.  You could pull
>down everything from CVS as described in the aforementioned page, or you can
>click on the Browse Source menu option on the gnucash webpage and then go into
>the report/standard-reports/ source directory to find the balance sheet
>report.
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>>Derrick
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>-derek
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I don't know that looking at the report code would do a whole lot for 
me.   What I actually want to look at is the output of a working balance 
sheet...

Sorry if I'm being a pain, but you know what they say - no pain, no gain.

Derrick (geez, this must be getting to me, I nearly spelt my name wrong, 
there...)