moving to sql backend

Carpetnailz carpetnailz at researchintegration.org
Mon Sep 2 18:14:01 EDT 2013


     A. On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 18:11 -0400, Carpetnailz wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 08:01 +1000, Liz wrote:
> > On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 17:49:06 -0400
> > Carpetnailz <carpetnailz at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm wanting to explore using a mysql backend for gnucash. All I can
> > > find in the tutorial and help manuals is the instruction to "save as"
> > > and select the desired sql data format.
> > > 
> > > But all I see there is the xml format option, and I haven't been able
> > > to find any instructions in the documentation on how to get 'save as'
> > > to show a mysql option--how to actually create the the mysql backend.
> > > The instructions seem to assume you've done it somehow. I have mysql
> > > running on my computer and can create a database there for GnuCash,
> > > but I need help in how to tell GnuCash to recognize it. I've searched
> > > both the help manual and the concepts guide to no avail.
> > > 
> > > Can you tell me where to find the needed info?
> > > 
> > > I've got GnuCash 2.4.13 on Fedora 17.
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > 
> > 
> > You need a program to bridge between Gnucash and your database
> > backend, MySql.
> > 
> > In Debian you would install libdbd-mysql.
> > You might find it is libdbi-mysql in Fedora - that is a previous name
> > for the library.
> 
> Yum tells me, "No package available" for both libdbi-mysql and
> libdbd-mysql.
It does appear in Add/Remove Software, tho. I'll see where that takes
me.
Thanks.



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