Source: http://www.invenn.com.au/install-ledgersmb-13-beta-4-osx
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Not gonna lie, installing LedgerSMB 1.3 on OSX is harder than it should be. I imagine it is next to impossible for the average small business owner to create a working installation. Not a good thing since small businesses could benefit greatly from the software. Here's how I got LedgerSMB up and running on OSX Leopard.

Software
* PostgreSQL
* Perl
* Homebrew
* gnu-sed
* gnu-getopt
* LedgerSMB 1.3.X

PostgreSQL

App X could be QuickBooks, Sage, Gnucash and others
Source: mail list: ledger.smb.user (Chris Travers and others)

With unknown programs you need to to find out:
1) How much data can you get out?
2) What database system does it use on the back-end?
3) If you cant export data, are there other means (i.e. custom ODBC
drivers, cvs export) that can access the info?

If you can get that information, you are about 50% of the way there.

A few pointers about such migrations :
1) Import into holding tables that match the existing schema of your

Hi all,

LedgerSMB 1.3.9 has been released. This includes the missing work on
printing 1099 forms, and some other fixes including localization
fixes, and a number of misc fixes. This release has RPM's available
too.

Please download at:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ledger-smb/files/ledgersmb/1.3.9/

The complete changelog is below.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers

Changelog for 1.3.9
* More logging enhancements (Herman V)
* Translation fixes in tax form reports (Chris T)
* Added accidently omitted 1099 forms (Chris T)

This document is an attempt to look at where we are going from here.
It may be helpful for people who wonder when certain features will be
rewritten.

This is an evolving document and may be subject to change.

Hi all;

LedgerSMB 1.3.8 has been released. It includes a significant number
of bug fixes. In general most users are better off moving to it
immediately. The complete changelog is below.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers

Changelog for 1.3.8:
* Fixed duplicate key error saving taxes (Herman V)
* Fixed not null violation when inserting bank acct w/o bic (Chris T)
* Corrected fkey violation when attaching file to order (Chris T)
* Moved language input on customer/vendor form for better display (Chris T)
* Corrected binmode handling on templates (Herman V and Chris T)

The LedgerSMB team has released LedgerSMB 1.3.7. The bugfix list is
very long but this release moves the backup tools to the database
administration utility (setup.pl) and corrects a number of other
issues. Additionally default languages can now be set for invoices
both per company database and per customer. The complete changelog
is below.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers

Changelog for LedgerSMB 1.3.7 (Categorized due to length)
Database
* Added foreign key of entity_credit_account.language_code (Herman V)
* Corrected permissions issue for editing assembly (Chris T)

The LedgerSMB team has released LedgerSMB 1.3.6. This release
corrects a significant number of issues involving a couple report
issues, some permissions a couple of translation strings, and more,
and it adds sample XeLaTeX templates for those who may wish to use
them. The complete changelog is below. Many thanks to the
contributors to this release.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers

Changelog for LedgerSMB 1.3.6
* Including xelatex templates under directory templates/xedemo (Chris T)
* Fix for company name in order entry (David B)

Hi all;

The LedgerSMB core team has released version 1.3.5. This is a
maintenance/bugfix release which corrects a significant number of
bugs, particularly for users of extended character sets. A number of
other i18n issues were fixed, as were some issues with sales order
generation from timecards, permissions and menu issues, and more. The
complete changelog is included below.

IBest Wishes,
Chris Travers

Changelog for LedgerSMB 1.3.5
* Fixing Menu and Permissions bug 3430820 (Chris T)
* Fixing permissions bug 3433644 (Chris T)

(Open source accounting/ERP application on Windows)

Content by Chris Travers, Gene Alexander (source: ledger-smb-users mail list)
Edited by Havard Sorli
This tutorial it not complete, please help us make it better.
Date: 17-11-2011

The steps
* Install Vanilla Perl for LedgerSMB 1.2.x or Strawberry Perl for LedgerSMB trunk or 1.3.x.
Vanilla Perl - http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Vanilla_Perl
Strawberry Perl - http://win32.perl.org/

* Install a web server - like IIS and Apache for Microsoft Windows