I am looking for a _simple_ checkbook balancing program. All I need is to be able to enter my debits and credits and be able to print it out to give it to my CA. The ability to print (ideally directly) is essential. Incrementing check numbers would be nice too. The ability to import a qif file is a plus point but not absolutely essential.

Previously I used gacc w/ kubuntu 6.04 (and fedora -- I forget which version). This was the perfect solution.

Unfortunately after upgrading to kubuntu 7.04 (and 8.04) gacc does not work. What happens is that though the program opens, there is no text in the menu bar or the status bar.

The same is the trouble with cbtracker. Here again, the program starts up but I run up against this problem of no text in the menu or status bar. I wrote to the author and he suggested that it could be a problem with the gtk theme and maybe changing the gtk theme might help. Google also gave a similar answer but for older versions of kubuntu. The software that helped in these cases is no longer available for kubuntu 7.x or 8.x.

I installed _all_the gtk-themes available. None helped. Asking on the kubuntu list turned up exactly zero answers :(.

Okay so back to google.

I found pycheckbook but it messes up the dates when it imports a qif file. All the dates are changed to the present date. Also, it won't print directly. You need to export to text then open in vim or OOo and more often than not the formatting is screwed up.

I also found chkbk. Just a shell script but no export or printing support that I could find.

Next was cbb. Again no direct printing possible.

Then I looked at brinance. A cli program that takes a cli parameter everytime you run it. Depends upon Brinance.pm -- a perl module that the author accepts is not very perl-ish and hence may give different results.

I looked at kmymoney, gnucash, buddi.

Kmymoney, nicely integrates with kde, imports qif files correctly after a bit of fiddling. But it won't let me print just a record of my transcations. Too much shoo sha for my taste (or even need).

I tried gnucash but it is greatly overkill.

Buddi won't import _anything_ :( . Maybe I'm missing something but the import and export commands are greyed out.

I intend taking a look a avsap but it too seems to be a full fledged accounting package.

so what do I do now ? suggestions welcome.

regards,

Sharukh.