[GNC] Balance Sheet Report Broken

[Adrien Monteleone]

Paul,

I’m not certain about your specific issue with the balance sheet. I do know there has been some recent discussion on the general topic of equity figures with relation to stocks. (mostly concerning unrealized gains/losses) There is an entirely new version of the balance sheet report being worked on hopefully for 3.3 or 3.4. I’m not sure if it addresses your issue. I’ll let others chime in, and you may need to file a bug report so it can be addressed in time for those releases.
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As for the new version question:

There is a flatpak version of 3.2 out there, but some people have noticed some issues. (notably, storing files on external/network drives which has a workaround, and MySQL access which is broken)

Otherwise, it is fairly easy to build GnuCash yourself on Ubuntu. The instructions on the Wiki have been updated recently and should be pretty straightforward. (I successfully built 3.2 on Xenial about a month ago) The process is to install the build tools, install certain dependencies, download the source, make, build.

The places where people get tripped up the most (based on threads here on the list) is “where to install GnuCash to”, (/usr/local, /opt, or $HOME/.local are easiest) and making sure to follow the very strong suggestion to use a build directory that is *not* the source directory. (a child or sibling directory is fine)

Here’s the wiki page for building: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building#Ubuntu

Read the General Instructions section there. Then, do not follow the *old* specific instructions for Ubuntu there, but instead on this new page: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/BuildUbuntu16.04

*note, one of the steps on the second page is to setup GoogleTest as part of your build environment. That GoogleTest page is a tad confusing. The ’nutshell’ is you probably want to follow the first code block only.

Feel free to ask for assistance or clarification on the list here if you hit a stumbling block.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Aug 29, 2018, at 11:12 AM, Paul Schwartz <pmjs1115 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have been using gnucash for many years. I keep my books with the assets
> valued at their purchase price. The cost basis is important when selling
> assets.This is easy for most stocks but some require periodic adjustments
> because of return-of-capital [or similar] events. I have been working with
> version 2.6.12 most recently, and the balance sheets reported correct cost
> basis values for all of my stocks. When I upgraded my Ubuntu systems
> recently, version 2.6.19 was installed.  I now find that neither Balance
> Sheet report is working. The standard reports zero value for the stock if a
> return of capital adjustment was made while the eguile version just ignores
> the adjustment and reports the original purchase value.
> 
> I would greatly appreciate some help in figuring out how to migrate to
> later versions of gnucash.
> 
> Paul Schwartz
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