Ledger - CLI accounting tool

Komodo · 2006-01-02 15:31:21

'Ledger is an accounting tool with the moxie to exist. It provides no bells or whistles, and returns the user to the days before user interfaces were even a twinkling in their father's CRT. What it does offer is a double-entry accounting ledger with all the flexibility and muscle of its modern day cousins, without any of the fat. Think of it as the Bran Muffin of accounting tools.'

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ledger

Any volunteers?

tomk · 2006-01-02 18:06:53

Doing a test build now - I'll post a PKGBUILD later this evening.

Komodo · 2006-01-02 18:26:31

Legend, cheers tomk

tomk · 2006-01-03 00:22:22

OK, here we go:

# Contributor: Tom K <tomk@runbox.com>

pkgname=ledger
pkgver=2.4.1
pkgrel=1        
pkgdesc="CLI double-enty accounting tool"
depends=('gmp' 'pcre' 'expat')
source=(http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/$pkgname/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=('5c0b653ef3298b9fb851c372c604c509')
url="http://ledger.sourceforge.net/"

build() {
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
}

ledger does not provide man pages - instead, there's a large (137K) info manual. As you're probably aware, Arch doesn't do info, so all you'll get from this PKGBUILD is the inbuilt help i.e. ledger -h (short version) or ledger -H (long version).

AFAIR, there is an info2man app in the AUR - if you really need the info stuff, we might be able to do it that way. Try it out anyway, and let me know.

Komodo · 2006-01-03 01:01:22

I can manage without the infopage thanks tomk; if you just type 'ledger' it gives you a fair bit of info anyway, and perhaps the infopage can be located online if necessary.

Many thanks for making the PKBUILD tomk, I'm very grateful to you for doing so. I can often make my own PKGBUILDS very easily, but since I know no C, I worry that if I run into problems I'll be screwed :?

Are you interested in participating in our programming competition?

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … highlight=

tomk · 2006-01-03 01:34:58

You're making me feel very reckless here. You don't package because you don't know C? I don't even know bash (not very well anyway), let alone C, perl, python, or anything else. I do know how to cog from other PKGBUILDs though, which accounts for all 14 of my AUR submissions, and a few strays that didn't meet the guidelines (they're around here somewhere...).

If you reckon ledger is OK, I'll AUR it - not being an accountant myself, I wouldn't know.

Re the programming comp, I appreciate the invite, but bearing in mind my lack of ability (see above), I plan to "nod along" for most of it - if I pick something up, that's a bonus.

Komodo · 2006-01-03 01:57:45

lol, ok fair play tomk.

I think ledger's fine by the looks of things; it should be ok for AUR.

tomk · 2006-01-03 11:06:44

Cool - it's there now.

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#1 2006-01-02 15:31:21

Ledger - CLI accounting tool

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Re: Ledger - CLI accounting tool

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