[Novalug] Moneydance or Gnucash

[American Dave]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 06:04:51PM -0500, Charles M Howe wrote:
 
> (1) My recollection is that about as many people liked Moneydance as
> Gnucash. Is that correct? All I want to do is keep records of personal
> stuff.

I've used Gnucash in the past and was happy with it.  I'd suggest trying
both to see what you think.

> (2) This is a Charlie the Perpetual question: How do I get it? I am up
> to date (running Karmic), but typing either at the command line draws a
> blank.

Debian, and by extension Ubuntu have a good way to search for software:

$ apt-cache search gnucash
gnucash - A personal finance tracking program
gnucash-common - A personal finance tracking program
gnucash-docs - Documentation for gnucash, a personal finance tracking
program
grisbi - Personal finance management program
homebank - Manage your personal accounts at home
homebank-data - Data files for homebank

$ sudo apt-get install gnucash

> On a different topic: A few days ago I complained that vi is screwed up.
> I say vi myfile at the command line. myfile shows up but editing
> commands don't work. In particular I type "i" but INSERT  doesn't show
> up at the bottom. And in general it just doesn't work. (Greg Pryzby
> suggested that I try gedit, which does work.) What is happening?

Depending on the version and configuration of vi, it may not show the status on the
bottom.  People like me end up hitting ESC pretty often to make sure I
know what mode I'm in.  Some prefer the simpler console editor "Nano", but if Gedit works, I
wouldn't worry.

-A. Dave