Simplify installation of kmymoney with HBCI

[markusd112]

Binary package hint: kmymoney2

For a "normal user" it is nearly impossible to install kmoney2 with HBCI functionality under Ubuntu 9.10. It would be much easier if there would be a complete package under synaptic that installs all necessary components.

In the moment you have to compile and rebuild kmymoney and kmmplugin for hbci functionality under ubuntu 9.10. That's very complicated and not reasonable for normal users.

Please simplify installation of kmymoney and hbci

[Hei Ku (asoliverez)]

Ubuntu 9.10 is still in alpha, which is not for end users. I guess you mean Ubuntu 9.04
The latest version and the plugins are available for installation from a PPA.

[markusd112 (markusd112)]

Sorry, yes, I mean Ubuntu 9.04.

I tried to install it via synaptic, but there is no possibility to activate online banking via hbci.

The problem seems to be, that in the repositories the online banking functions of kmymoney are disabled, so you have to manually download the source and compile it. The german ubuntuusers wiki tells this:
http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/KMyMoney

[Hei Ku (asoliverez)]

The KMM stock packages in Jaunty have the plugins disabled, and they are broken in some other ways.

Our recommendation is to install the packages from a PPA provided by one of our users.
https://edge.launchpad.net/~claydoh/+archive

Add his repository, uninstall your current version, and install kmymoney-cvs and plugins from there.

[markusd112 (markusd112)]

After choosing the PPA, uninstalling kmymoney and installing it again, kmymoney1 is starting up, when I start /usr/bin/kmymoney2.... not kmymoney2...

I don't understand, why this package cannot be installed via synaptic without adding any private PPA manually?

[Hei Ku (asoliverez)]

That has to do with the release cycle of Ubuntu. The packages are only refreshed every certain time, and they are not as good as they could be. That is for the Ubuntu team to fix.

I'm a KMyMoney developer, and have no control over it. Our alternative solution was to provide a PPA, which users have to add manually, but which we can make sure it works ok. Sorry for the inconvenience.

About the installation, were you able to make it work or not?

[markusd112 (markusd112)]

No, I wasn't able to install it... after installation kmymoney v. 1.0 is starting... I don't know why... Under /usr/bin/ the package has put an executable "kmymoney2"... I don't know, why there is starting the version 1.0 of kmymoney? Very curios... Thanks for your help!

[Hei Ku (asoliverez)]

I see where your confusion comes from. Kmymoney2 is a name coming from an old change to KDE2. But the latest version of kmymoney2 is 1.0. So, my guess is that your installation is ok now.

[markusd112 (markusd112)]

Oh thanks, that was my fault: you are right. I thought that kmymoney2 has version number 2.x ;-). Now it works. Thanks a lot. Maybe this feature requests is used for the ubuntu team to think about a simplification of the installation of kmymoney.

Such difficult installation procedures scare users off when they try to change from windows to linux...

[Jack Ostroff (ostroffjh)]

This should probably be closed as KMyMoney2 is long dead. The "2" was dropped from the name, and version 5.1 has recently been released.