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Finances and accounting are among the more unpopular tasks in small businesses. With Linux and the free program Yabs, however, you can easily keep track of your finances.
Traditional business software is usually primarily aimed at larger organizations and therefore includes many modules that small businesses don't need. The administrative overhead often increases with the complexity of the software, and small businesses in particular are thus reluctant to use such solutions. However, Yabs (Yet another Business Software) provides a lean and ballast-free solution without compromising on operating convenience.
Installation
Yabs is available for download as an about 37MB zip archive at GitHub [1]. Yabs is a Java application, so you'll need a Java runtime environment to use the program. The business software cooperates with both the proprietary Java environment from Oracle and with the free OpenJDK version. Because OpenJDK is now found in virtually all package management systems of major Linux distributions, it is worth installing it from the software repository of your Linux derivative. If you aren't sure whether a Java environment has already been installed on your system, you can check the status by entering the java -version
command in the terminal.
Then, unzip the Yabs zip archive into a designated directory using a tool such as Ark or PeaZip. You can then move it to a program directory of your choice later. Third-party programs are typically stored in the /opt/
directory in Linux. After the subsequent change to the Yabs program directory, you can enable the software by entering the java -jar yabs.jar
command. No entry for Yabs is created in your desktop's menu tree, so you need to create a corresponding starter – if you want to start the software from the menu via mouse click in the future.
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