Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Skrooge is a KDE app for managing personal finances, enabling the users to easily track down their income, expenses and investments, via its intuitive GUI.
Among others, it has support for QIF, CSV, KMyMoney, Skrooge import/export, infinite undo/redo, scheduled operations and operations and reports filtering, multi currencies and track refund of your expenses.
The latest version available is Skrooge 1.11, which has been recently released, coming with a huge list of changes, including:
- Correction bug 341020: End of text in lineedit hides under the “clear” icon button
- Correction bug 341450: Empty skg_bill.csv is created every time I launch Skrooge
- Correction bug 341463: Monthly reports include transfers between accounts and shows as income/expenses
- Correction bug 342737: Multiple date modifications on scheduled operations
- Correction bug 343730: Resize/hide internal filter panel in report
- Correction bug 335945: Support making split operations from standard operations by search and process
- Correction bug 344250: Bank ING-DIRECT in France has changed its bank number
- Correction bug 345580: Share without tax should not be split
- Correction bug 345654: Btn Add grayed after entering values information
- Correction bug 345661: Selecting multiple operations: amount is not —–
- Correction bug 345719: Enhance fast search/filter on lists
- Correction bug 345826: Bas edit fields on list sub-operation after search
- Correction bug 345416: Crash when searching on ‘type’ field
- Correction: “Search” and “Report” do not work on properties of suboperations
- Correction: Bad tooltips in “Report” for expand and collapse
- Correction: Support invalid OFX file having debit with positive amount
- Correction: Timeline does not work in some cases
- Correction: More flexibility during import of ofx file not having id on transactions
- Correction: Anonymized file is renamed to avoid accidental overwrite of the current file
- Correction: weboob backend compliant with version 1.0
- Correction: Avoid crash and generate an error when the sqlite version of the system is not aligned with the sqlite version embedded in QT
- Correction: Open suboperation from multi selected operations
- Correction: Avoid deletion of previous file and backup during save in case of file system full
- Correction: When a folder of bookmark a tab doesn’t have the right icon
- Correction: Stable sort when sorting by date to avoid ununderstandable balance
- Correction: In table, when rows are groups, the row representing the group spans all columns
- Correction: Avoid crash in Add properties on suboperations
- New feature: Better custom report configuration
- New feature: New dock to be able to see all messages displayed
- New feature: Alarm messages can be have parameters for the total amount (%1), alarm amount (%2) and difference (%3)
- New feature: Show sum of spendings in tables when operations are grouped
- New feature: New advice detecting scheduled operations having date not aligned with the last inserted operation
- New feature: The target directory of the backuped file can be force
- New feature: Now some advices are recommended
- New feature: In settings, you can define default comments, payees and categories for fake, commission and tax operations
- New feature: New button on advices widget to apply all recommended advices
- New feature: Display average, min and max on groups in tables
- New feature: WORD function is now able to extract word from the right by using negative parameters
- New feature: Addition of “Creation date” on operations
In this article I will show you how to install Skrooge 1.11 on Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Deepin 2014, Peppermint Five, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2 and other Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 14.04 derivative systems.
Because it is available via PPA, installing Skrooge 1.11 on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the skrooge package. Like this:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:s-mankowski/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install skrooge
Optional, to remove skrooge, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove skrooge
Have you had any issues with this release? I’m finding all user interface interactions are highly non-responsive after the update even if I close my old database and create a new one. Clicking accounts takes nearly 30 seconds to produce any UI change.
Launching from the command line will eventually yeild the following message:
##CRITICAL: skrooge(5749)/kdecore (K*TimeZone*): KSystemTimeZones: ktimezoned initialize() D-Bus call failed: “Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
After this warning everything functions as expected thus far.