X-Accountant ------------ xacc is a program to keep track of your finances. It is similar in concept to Quicken(TM). Although xacc still lacks the advanced features of quicken, it does have the basic functionality. Some of the features of xacc are: - Multiple Accounts - Each account keeps a running balance and a reconciled balance, so you can keep track of the checks that have clear your account. - A simple interface. If you can use the register in the back of your checkbook, you can use xacc. - QuickFill... if you begin typing a description in the description fields, and it matches an previous transaction, hitting will copy the previous transaction. Handy if you have similar transactions on a regular basis. (such as depositing your paycheck every week :) - Stock/Mutual Fund Portfolios. Track stocks individually (one per account) or in portfolio of accounts (a group of accounts that can be displayed together). - Quicken File Import. Import Quicken QIF files. Advanced Features ----------------- X-Accountant offers some features not usually found in simpler accounting programs. - Sub-accounts: A master account can have a hierarchy of detail accounts underneath it. This allows similar account types (e.g. Cash, Bank, Stock) to be grouped into one master account (e.g. Assets). - Double Entry: Every transaction can appear in two accounts; one account is debited and the other is credited with exactly the same amount. With double-entry, a transaction edited in one window will be automatically updated in all other windows showing that transaction, and in both of the accounts. - Income/Expense Account Types (Categories). When used properly with the double-entry feature, these can be used to create both Balance Sheet and Profits & Losses reports. For example, savings account interest, stock dividends, or paychecks can be marked as both a deposit in a bank account, and as income in an Income account type, using the double-entry (transfer) feature. Similarly, credit card charges can be noted in the credit card account, as well as in a corresponding expense account. - General Ledger: Multiple accounts can be displayed in one register window at the same time. This can ease the trouble of tracking down typing/entry errors. It also provides a convenient way of viewing a portfolio of many stocks, by showing all transactions in that portfolio. Home Page: ---------- http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~rclark/xacc Important Note: --------------- Numerous core dumps have been reported that occur with lesstif version 0.82. These core dumps do not occur with lesstif v 0.81, nor with RedHat Motif. If it's crashing, please try using the statically-linked Motif version, as described below. Running: -------- The binary-only distribution includes two binary files: 'xacc.bin' and 'xacc-static.bin'. The former requires a Motif shared library; the latter has Motif statically linked in. If you have Motif, then just run xacc. If you do not have Motif, then copy 'xacc-static.bin' to 'xacc.bin'. Access to the on-line help documentation requires the that the environment variable XACC_HELP be set to the 'Docs' directory. The 'xacc' shell script sets this variable to the configured directory before running the main program, so you don't have to set this by hand. If you want to override the path to the Docs directory: For csh/tcsh % setenv XACC_HELP /usr/local/share/xacc/Docs or, for bash/bsh/ksh/sh % set XACC_HELP=/usr/local/share/xacc/Docs % export XACC_HELP You can then start xacc at the command-line, with "xacc" or "xacc ", where is an xacc account file. Sample accounts can be found in "data" subdirectory. *.dat files are xacc accounts that can opened with the "Open File" menu entry. *.qif files are Quicken Import Format files that can be opened with the "Import QIF" menu entry. Building & Installing: ---------------------- These steps does not apply to binary distributions; only to source distributions. Normally, to build and install xacc, all you have to do is: # ./configure # make depend # make # make install You can also build xacc in a seperate directory, which is useful if you are compiling for several platforms from a single copy of the source tree: # mkdir BUILD # mkdir BUILD/debug # cd BUILD/debug # ../../configure --enable-debug # make depend # make # make install sorry, no "make install" yet. Status: ------- As of version 1.0.16: xacc is known to work in the following configs: Linux 2.0.x -- Intel w/ RedHat Motif Slackware 3.4 -- Intel w/ Mootif (OSF Motif 2.0.1) Linux 2.0.x -- Intel w/ Lesstif v0.81 SGI IRIX -- IBM AIX 4.1.5 -- RS/6000 http://www-frec.bull.com/ Unixware 7 -- Intel SCO OpenServer 5.0.4 -- Intel See http://linas.org/linux/xacc for precompiled binaries for these platforms xacc seems to be having problems with: Solaris -- Sparc -- won't compile due to va-args in XmHTML Linux 2.0.x -- Intel w/ Lesstif v0.82 Download Sites: --------------- All of the precompiled binaries & the latest source versions can be found at http://linas.org/linux/xacc However, it is recommended that the master sites for each particular binary be used instead, for two reasons: 1) bandwidth 2) OS-specific info & support IBM AIX 4.1.5 -- SMIT-installable images http://www.bull.de/pub/ see also http://www-frec.bull.com/ SCO OpenServer 5.0.4 http://www.sco.com/skunkware/osr5/x11/apps/xacc/VOLS.tar Unixware 7 -- use pkgadd to install http://www.sco.com/skunkware/uw7/x11/apps/xacc/xacc.pkg.gz SGI Irix -- in SGI install format -- warning, this is a very down-level version http://linas.org/linux/xacc/xacc-1.0b7-sgi-irix.inst.tar Linux Debian -- use debian tools to install http://linas.org/linux/xacc/xacc_1.0.15-1_i386.deb That's all folks! Main Developers: ---------------- Robin Clark for original xacc Linas Vepstas for extensive enhancements Fixes & Patches: ---------------- George Chen for MS-Money QIF's & fixes Koen D'Hondt for Solaris patches to XmHTML Ciaran Deignan for AIX binary version Dave Freese for leap-year fix Otto Hammersmith for RedHat RPM version Tom Kludy for SGI Irix port G. Allen Morris III for QIF core dump Peter Norton for a valiant attempt at a GTK port Gavin Porter for euro style dates Ron Record for SCO Unixware & OpenServer binaries Christopher Seawood for XbaeMatrix core dump Richard Skelton for Solaris cleanup Henning Spruth for German translations ... and I am sure that I have missed a few ...