gnucash(1)

gnucash1

Personal finance manager

Usage

gnucash [options] [accounts.gnucash]

Overview

GnuCash is a personal accounting package that allows you to record and track income, expenses, assets, and investments. It supports reconciliation, has substantial reporting capabilities, and is extensible using guile. It can import QIF data from Quicken(TM) and many other commercial accounting packages. It uses GTK+ and GNOME to provide an attractive user interface, and has extensive online help.

Options

--version

Show GnuCash version

--help

Show this help message

--debug

Enable debugging mode: increasing logging to provide deep detail.

--extra

Enable extra/development/debugging features.

--log

Log level overrides, of the form "log.ger.path={debug,info,warn,crit,error}" This option can be specified multiple times.

--logto

File to log into; defaults to "$TMPDIR/gnucash.trace"; use "stderr" or "stdout" to write to the terminal.

--paths

Show installation and configuration paths.

--nofile

Do not load the last file opened

Files

~/.gnucash/config.auto

Automatically generated per-user configuration file. DO NOT EDIT MANUALLY!

Environment

GNC_DEBUG

Enable debugging output. This allows you to turn on the debugging earlier in the startup process than you can with --debug.

GUILE_LOAD_PATH

An override for the GnuCash scheme load path. You shouldn't need to alter this. For more information see the README file.

GNC_MODULE_PATH

An override for the GnuCash scheme load path for Gnucash modules. You shouldn't need to alter this. For more information see the README file.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 11 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1
  3. 4.0
  4. 5.0
  5. 6.0
  6. 7
  7. 8
  8. 9
  9. 10
  10. 11
  11. 13
  12. Arch

--extra since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --log since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --logto since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --paths since Debian 13 (Trixie).

--add-price-quote until Debian 3.0 (Woody); --add-price-quotes until Debian 11 (Bullseye); --config-dir until Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --doc-path until Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --evaluate until Debian 4.0 (Etch); --load until Debian 4.0 (Etch); --load-path until Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --load-system-config until Debian 4.0 (Etch); --load-user-config until Debian 4.0 (Etch); --loglevel until Debian 4.0 (Etch); --namespace until Debian 11 (Bullseye); --rpc-server until Debian 4.0 (Etch); --share-dir until Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --usage until Debian 4.0 (Etch).

Bugs

Please report any bugs using the bug reporting form on the GnuCash web site.

Author

Robert Merkel <[email protected]> wrote this manpage.

GnuCash was written by Robin Clark, Linas Vepstas, and a cast of thousands.

From gnucash 5.17-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.