How to Install Kmymoney in Ubuntu

To Install Kmymoney in Ubuntu 15.10

KMyMoney is a free personal finance manager that support for different account types. It categorise the expenses, incomes and bank settlements.It supports importing and exporting QIF, provides online banking for the OFX and HBCI protocols. Installation of Kmymoney in Ubuntu is explained.

Features

Accounts - represents the assets and liabilities.
Institutions - used to view bank, a broker, a credit card can be viewed easily. Use of Institutions also allows a grouping of accounts.
Payees - Displays the list of payees.
Categories - Categories is a common feature of accounting software.
Sub-categories - Categories and sub-categories permits the transactional data.
Tags - A tag is used to group several categories and accounts together as per our requirement.
Investments - Track investments.

To install kmymoney package

Add the kmymoney package into repository, by using the following command.

root@user1-linuhelp:~# add-apt-repository ppa:claydoh/kmymoney2-kde4
 Packages for the latest stable KMyMoney
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~claydoh/+archive/ubuntu/kmymoney2-kde4
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gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

Run the following command to update the machine.

root@user1-linuhelp:~# apt-get update
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily InRelease
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com wily-security InRelease [65.9 kB]                                                      
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net wily InRelease              
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Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/universe Translation-en                                                 
Fetched 1,866 kB in 18s (98.8 kB/s)                                                                                     
Reading package lists... Done

Utilise the following command to install the kmymoney package.

root@user1-linuhelp:~# apt-get install kmymoney
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
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Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu4) ...
Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.0-1ubuntu1) ...

To launch Kmymoney

Run the following command to launch Kmymoney.

root@user1-linuhelp:~# kmymoney

Welcome screen of kMymoney appears.

Go to home menu and set the “ Get started and setup account” option.

Fill the Personal data fields and click next.

Select the preferred currency type.

Select the account type and other details.

Click next.

Preview of configured KMyMoney setup.

Now schedule the transaction details in KmyMoney

Click Payee option to add user for transaction.

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FAQ

Will KMymoney work on my X/Ubuntu desktop?

It will work, but you will have to install the basic KDE libraries first, as Xubuntu comes with Gnome libraries by default. If you want to install from Git, you should install build-essential

When I compile from source, all the icons show up as missing. What did I do wrong?

Usually the reason for this is that you didn't run 'make install' as root. This step actually copies all of the icons, and other files needed by KMyMoney to run properly. If you did run this,

When I compile from source, all the icons show up as missing. What did I do wrong?

Usually the reason for this is that you didn't run 'make install' as root. This step actually copies all of the icons, and other files needed by KMyMoney to run properly. If you did run this,

The Git version is broken! What do I do now?

Usually the reason for this is that one of the developers made a change to the code that requires a clean reconfigure. Please run a 'git pull --rebase' to update your local repository.