GnuCash reports with zero values?

If you do a report in GnuCash for accounts with currency x (say AUD), but the GnuCash default for reports is currency y (say USD), then you will get an error message about zero values, or a report with all zeros.

The solution is to alter the report's currency to match the account's currency.

Why? Because the accounts really do have zero balance in currency y - but that's probably not what you intended to report on. Really you wanted a report on currency x.

Note: you can change the default currency for reports in the preferences.

openSUSE distribution upgrades

To go from openSUSE 10.3 -> 11.0 -> 11.1 -> 11.2 -> 11.3 etc. you can use zypper. This does it all from the Internet, so it's nice and easy (in theory).

At a very high level this is the procedure:

(for 11.1 -> 11.2)

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/ openSUSE-11.2-oss
zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss/ openSUSE-11.2-nonoss
zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/ openSUSE-11.2-srcoss
zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.2/ openSUSE-11.2-update


I generally upgrade the tools before doing the "dup" command, as I had a range of issues doing 10.2 to 10.3 upgrades:

zypper in zypper rpm

Then I go forth and:

zypper dup


I did have tonnes of problems going from 10.2 to 10.3 due to changes in libzypper. I ended up force installing a whole bunch of rpm's to make it work. Messy, but got there in the end.