How to install HomeBank in Linux

To install HomeBank in Linux

HomeBank is a free personal finance and money management application to manage your finance details. It has a powerful filtering tools and graphs that helps you to analyse your transactions. Installation of Homebank in Linux is explained in this article.

Features

• Cross platform
• Import bank statements
• Duplicates transaction detection
• Automatic cheque numbering
• Internal transfer
• Month/Annual budget
• Dynamic powerful reports
• Automatic category/payee assignment

Before installing Homebank, add the following repo.

root@linuxhelp:~# add-apt-repository ppa:mdoyen/homebank
 Official HomeBank PPA stable release
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~mdoyen/+archive/ubuntu/homebank
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmprc5_6yik/secring.gpg'  created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmprc5_6yik/pubring.gpg'  created
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gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

Run the following command to update the repos.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty InRelease
Get:1 http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty Release.gpg [72 B]            
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security InRelease [65.9 kB]           
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Ign http://in.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe Translation-en_IN             
Fetched 33.0 MB in 1min 53s (291 kB/s)                                         
Reading package lists... Done

Now install the homebank package

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install homebank
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
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Setting up libosp5 (1.5.2-10ubuntu3) ...
Setting up libofx4:amd64 (1:0.9.4-2.1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up homebank-data (4.5.5-2) ...
Setting up homebank (4.5.5-2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.7) ...

To launch HomeBank, run the following command in the terminal.

root@linuxhelp:~# homebank

To create an account

Go to Manage -> Accounts from the Menu bar.

Select the type of account, bank details, account details and click Close.

The account details will be shown in the main interface.

To create payees

Go to Manage -> Payee from the Menu bar. Enter the name of the payee, and Click Add button.

To Create categories

Go to Manage -> Category, Enter the name of the Category and Click Add.

To Add transaction

Go to Transactions -> Add from the Menu bar.
Fill up the details like date, amount, payment type, account, payee, category and status etc. Click Add to complete the transaction.

Now, move to main window and double click on the Account. It will display the recent transaction details.