I really like the way the ledger CLI accounting software works, but I cannot seem to get it to function correctly.

I set my LEDGER_FILE environment variable to my text file. Whenever I use ledger the output is always formatted incorrectly.

Heres an example:

I can do ledger bal

results (replace $MONEY with actual numbers):

$MONEY ESC[34mAssets:CheckingESC[0m
ESC[31m$-MONEYESC[0m ESC[34mEquity:Opening BalanceESC[0m

That is the result I get. I am not sure whats wrong.

There is also no man page for ledger or any kind of help with the -h flag.

Thanks.

Ok so I found an RPM for ledger online, converted it to tgz, installed, and it now works fine.

But that begs the question why building the source didn't work?

How did you build it from source ? What CFLAGS ?

I used the included acprep script file that did it all for me.

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Ok I Using slackware-current. And git ledger, use this same script, but didn't work for Me that same result. Anny ideas?

Did you use ledger.tar.gz from slackbuilds to build your ledger program?

If you obtained the ledger sources using git, then you got the sources for the 3.0 in-progress version, not yet released as stable. Most RPMs and other packaged releases of ledger are for the 2.6.x versions, which is the current stable release.

By default, the new 3.0 version outputs its reports to a pager with the output colourized with the ANSI colour codes. Those wierd "ESC[34m", etc, groups are the ANSI colour codes being output through the pager less, which by default doesn't colourize its output.

You can get around this by putting "--pager=most" or "--pager=none" at the end of your ledger command, or you can put the pager options in your .ledgerrc file. Or, if you don't want colour output, put "--no-color" at the end of your command or in .ledgerrc.

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