OFX in Debian/Ubuntu

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Bernat Tallaferro <bernat.tallaferro at gmail.com>:

> After reading several reports of people not getting OFX to work at the
> Ubuntu distribution forums, I decided to investigate this a bit.
>
> What caught my attention is that on this article at the wiki
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Setting_up_OFXDirectConnect_in_GnuCash_2
> the author seems to claim that:
>
> a) GnuCash must be configured using --enable-hbci and --enable-ofx in
> order for OFXDirectConnect to be available.
>
> Is this correct? Why is --enable-hbci required if you only want to use
> OFX? Are they not two independent connection methods?

--enable-hbci is really two things at once.  It means '--enable-aqbanking'
and '--enable-hbci'...  Although there isn't an '--enable-aqbanking' per
se.  But you need AqBanking for DirectConnect, which is why you need
to --enable-hbci.

> b) You must have Libofx 0.8.2 or higher and AqBanking 2.0.0 or higher to
> user OFXDirectConnect in Gnucash
>
> Is this also correct? The version of libofx available from the Ubuntu
> Edgy repositories is 0.8.0. Therefore in theory, OFXDirectConnect will
> *not* work per default in Ubuntu, will it?

Yes, this is correct (at least for LibOFX).  You need 0.8.2 for Direct 
Connect.

> Thanks.

-derek

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