Install Money Manager EX in Ubuntu 16 - MMEX

Money Manager EX is a nice tool to keep track of personal finances and expenses. And while installers exist for windows, in Linux one has to compile the software alone. This has proven to be somewhat more difficult than expected, but with the right dependencies and following the guide it is possible.

Compile from git repository and install

Following the Ubuntu guide from Github one needs to do,

1. Install dependencies
   

   sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
   sudo apt-get install git build-essential automake libwxbase3.0-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev libwxgtk-webview3.0-dev python-dev build-essential cmake git libgtk-3-dev libwebkitgtk-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev libwxgtk-webview3.0-dev libwxsqlite3-3.0-dev

   (In the github documentation the latter libwsqlite3-3.0-dev is not mentioned, however it is necessary for compiling. Without this I was getting errors while compiling)
2. Clone the git repository
   

   git clone --recursive https://github.com/moneymanagerex/moneymanagerex

   (I found that the --recursive parameter is important, otherwise I got some files missing in the end)
3. For the release (no debugging build) configure and compile as
   

   cd moneymanagerex/build
   mkdir release
   cd release
   cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../../
   make package

4. After this you can install it with
   

   sudo make install

5. and finally run from the terminal window with
   

   mmex

MMEX running under Ubuntu 16

Note: For make you can pass the argument "-j x" where x is the number of threads to use.

Creating a desktop launcher

Create a file called Mmex.desktop (yes, .desktop) on your desktop.

nano ~/Desktop/Mmex.desktop

Paste the following into the file

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=mmex
Name=Mmex
Comment=Money Manager
Icon=/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/mmex.svg

Make the file executable with

chmod +x ~/Desktop/Mmex.desktop

You should be left with the following, a nice desktop launcher.

Mmex desktop launcher and the location of the Icon

What is what?
Exec - command that gets executed
Name - The visible name of the file (hence you don't see the .desktop extension)
Comment - Additional comment if you like
Icon - path to the icon to display, otherwise blank launcher image