How To Install beancount on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install beancount on Ubuntu.
What is beancount
beancount is:
A double-entry bookkeeping computer language that lets you define financial transaction records in a text file, read them in memory, generate a variety of reports from them, and provides a web interface.
The following features require the following extra dependencies to be installed:
- Beancount Web [python3-bottle]
- OFX import [python3-bs4]
- Google Sheets upload [python3-googleapi]
- External price imports [python3-requests]
There are three methods to install beancount on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install beancount Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install beancount using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install beancount
Install beancount Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install beancount using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install beancount
Install beancount Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install beancount using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install beancount
How To Uninstall beancount on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the beancount package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove beancount
Uninstall beancount And Its Dependencies
To uninstall beancount and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove beancount
Remove beancount Configurations and Data
To remove beancount configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge beancount
Remove beancount configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove beancount configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge beancount
Dependencies
beancount have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install beancount package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.