I tried to install the plugins for the check printing on kmymoney but I keep getting errors on the command lines. Has anyone had any success doing this?

Moved to KMyMoney forum.

When are you getting the error and where are you trying to install it from?

Which version of KMM is that?

Most important: which errors do you get?

I am doing a command line in the order shown below, just as instructed to do. Everything works just fine until I get to #3 then it says it doesnt exist.

1. mkdir kmymoney-plugins-build (the dir should be outside of the source tree from the tarball)
2. cd kmymoney-plugins-build
3. cmake path_to_source
4. make
5. make install

Also I am running kmtmoney 3.5.10

you should replace path_to_source with the path of the folder where the sources are located.

Forgive me I'm new at this. How do I find the path of the folder where the sources are located?

where did you extract the source of the plugins?


BTW, why are you installing this from source? You should have a version available for your distro.
Please provide details on the version of your distro and the version of KMyMoney you are running.

Im running Ubuntu 9.10.

My Kmymoney 1.0.2 (using KDE 3.5.10)

I did pull the program from my distro, but I didnt see any plugins for check priting. I googled info for check printing and Im following what it said. If you can point me in the right direction so I can just pull it from my distro, please let me know.

Your distro does not have this plugin in a packaged form, so you have to compile it from scratch

You have to download the plugin source ( a compressed .tar.gz file)
Uncompress the file in a folder
Then in that folder create a folder called build
Now you have to open a terminal and go that build folder
once you are in the folder, type:
cmake .
make
sudo make install

Report back with any problems.

Again, Im new to this. I created a folder in the newly extracted files called build. Then I opened the terminal and put in the following

cd kmymoney-plugins-build

it then put me in the following:

owner@ubuntu:~/kmymoney-plugins-builds$

I assume that is the new directory I need to be in?? then I type in cmake as you instructed and it then scrolls through a series of what looks like command lines and I end up back at the owner@ubuntu:~/kmymoney-plugins-builds$ prompt. I then type in make as instructed and this is what I get.

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Then right back to the owner@ubuntu:~/kmymoney-plugins-builds$ promt.

I hope this helps, Im trying to be as detailed as possible. Thanks for your help.

I have read this thread again. For myself, I will summarize:

a) you're using KDE 3.5.10
b) you're using KMyMoney 1.0.2 from a binary package
c) you want to get the check printing plugin working
d) you're new to this (i.e. you need detailed instructions)

a) and b) are the base for this. For c) you need the sources which you can get at http://cheepee.homedns.org/~cristi/kmym ... .1.tar.bz2
. More info about KMyMoney plugins is listed at http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/plugins.html . Unpack tha tar-ball with the following command:

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tar -xvjf kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1.tar.bz2


Using the following commands, you can start building it.

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cd kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make


The cmake .. step (don't forget the two dots) requires a whole lot of files to be present on your system. Don't worry, cmake checks for them to be there. If they are not, you will see a bunch of error messages. Mostly it checks for the tools required to build the plugins and some necessary descriptions we developers call header files (they end in .h).

If you see problems, please consult this forum. Don't forget to drop the error message so that we can give you some advice.

Hope this helps to get you started.

ipwizard, thank you for the detailed instructions. I did just as you instructed, and when I go through the first 3 steps of the building commands the following is what I see on my terminal:

owner@ubuntu:~/kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1/build$

Is that correct? If so, notice bellow what takes place next


When I apply step number 4 "cmake.." it respons with the following:

cmake..: command not found

Then it returns me to owner@ubuntu:~/kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1/build$

Time to look for the package that contains cmake. Since you're on ubuntu, try

sudo aptitude install cmake

Hopefully this is the correct command (I am not a ubuntu/debian expert if it comes to packages)