HomeBank Portable

"On the whole, however, HomeBank is a very capable personal finance manager for the struggling household. You’ll be amazed at how much money you’ll save just by knowing how much you’ve spent – and in these hard times, that’s priceless." —Nick Peers, PCAdvisor.co.uk (19 Jun 2015)

"It is not bogged down in the double-entry accounting procedures that GNUCash uses. Thus, HomeBank's learning curve is much less steep." —Jack M. Germain, LinuxInsider.com (Apr 27, 2011 5:00 AM PT)

"Runtime error occurred, wiping out my entries" —rrtopaz, download.CNET.com (December 26, 2011)

HomeBank is a free software (as in "free speech" and also as in "free air") that will assist you to manage your personal accounting.

HomeBankPortable_5.2.2.paf
Size: 68.0 MB (71,380,992 bytes) Packed Size: 16.8 MB (17,702,912 bytes)
MD5: A63D4F0162291973F06DF0ED201384F7

DIY/Do It Yourself: Upgrade to the Latest Release

Requirements 7-Zip, NPP/Notepad++ or other text editor, PortableApps.com Launcher Generator/PAL, PortableApps.com Installer/PAI.

1. Get the latest portable app. template, and extract the content with 7-Zip.
2. Get the latest HomeBank release.
3. Extract the installer by following this guide.
4. Browse to HomeBank-5.1.7-setup\{app} extracted folder, and find files with these wildcards,

     *,1.*
    

   and delete them,
   
5. Now find files with these wildcards,

     *,2.*
    

   and remove the ,2 from their names,
   the *,2.* files are the portable binaries, you can check this in the installer's install_script.iss file.
6. Move License.txt from HomeBank-5.1.7-setup\embedded to HomeBank-5.1.7-setup\{app} folder.
7. Copy the content of License.txt to update the App\AppInfo\eula.txt content.
8. Select All (Ctrl+A) the HomeBank-5.1.7-setup\{app} contents and move them to HomeBankPortable\App\HomeBank folder,
   
9. Browse to HomeBankPortable\App\AppInfo and open appinfo.ini file with NPP. Replace the [Version] section with the latest version number. Make sure the PackageVersion entry is in 4 place digit, eg. 5.1.7.0 not just 5.1.7.
   
10. Run PAL, paste the template folder address C:\0TEST\HomeBankPortable, and click Go—a new launcher will be created,
    
11. Test the new launchers by following this guide.
12. When all is OK, then delete the HomeBankPortable\Data folder and run PAI, paste the package folder address C:\0TEST\HomeBankPortable, and click Go—to create the installer package.
    
13. Use the installer package to upgrade your portable application. Don't forget to at least backup your Data folder before any upgrade :)
14. If you find any changes that's not handled by the launcher, consult the PAL help file to modify the launcher yourself or ask for our paid upgrade support.

Portability Notes

• HomeBank is built with GTK+ that sometime writes to Windows data folders while running. Most of the time it's not, so it could be said Homebank is 100% portable.
• Make sure it exits cleanly before plugging out your thumbdrive.

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