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

(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

by Neon

I put together this bash script to install on a vanilla fedora 14 box. It assumes a bare-bones (i.e. not even
postgresql or apache installed yet) box, but I don't see why it can't be used on a full-up install (it just
won't install the dependancies that are already existing).

Anyway. Use, fold, spindle, mutilate, use as a basis for something else, feed it to your cat, whatever. You
don't even need to give me credit.

You can find the script in this posting:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.finance.ledger.smb.devel/2802/match=...

Hi every one,
first I want to congratulate you all for an excelente job.

My problem its that i want to translate LedgerSMB to Spanish Venezuela, I know that already it is, but here stell some words that there not, So i trying to do it in the same way just like "sqledger": perl locales.pl, but nothing hapen :S

Please anie help. tanks. harold.

[Chris Travers: All translation files are now in gettext's .po format. These can be found in locale/[country code]/
The files need no compiling. Just add the string and its translation and submit your changes to the -devel list.]

I found LedgerSMB after my search for an Open Source accounting package. But truthfully, I am completely puzzled by the installation process of LedgerSMB. I've searched and searched only find instructions that were line after line of command line instructions (none of which were familiar). However, in defense of what I found, they were written back in Nov 2007.

Here are just a couple of the examples that I found:
http://www.howtoforge.com/ledgersmb_debian_etch

2008-08-11
By Jeff Kowalczyk (jfkw)

I've been working on my local LedgerSMB deployment customization
using the distributed version control system, git. I'm relatively
new to git, but it's really helping me in the following areas:

* Fixing bugs in branches/1.2

* Making necessary customizations that are unsuitable for
upstream

* Layering multiple customization branches on each other to get
the configuration required by a particular customer deployment

* Putting templates and graphics under version control

* Putting the plaintext backup of the company database under

LedgerSMB failed to print to printer. I did the following changes in BP.pm, :-

#open( OUT, '>', $form->{OUT} ) or $form->error("$form->{OUT} : $!");
#by fhng
# 16/4/08
#--------
open( OUT, "|$form->{OUT} >/dev/null 2>&1") or $form->error("$form->{OUT} : $!");

Then, it print.

Also, the error message is not helpful, e.g. if LATEX is not installed, printing will fail with out much debug info but just display Error

Thanks.

Recently, I did a talk at the Greater Toronto Area LUG (GTALUG) on LedgerSMB (experiencing MySQL problems at time of posting, tsk-tsk, should have used PostgreSQL ;-). Since I'm not an accountant, the talk focused mostly on the history, architecture and future of the project. Some of the folks at the talk asked if I could provide them with the slides that I used. Nothing fancy, just typical point-form talk stuff. I've uploaded it to the LedgerSMB site for anyone who is interested.