How To Install grisbi 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 grisbi on Ubuntu.

What is `grisbi`

grisbi is:

Grisbi is a personal accounting program. Grisbi can handle multiple accounts, currencies and users. It helps you manage your money using third party, expenditure and receipt categories, as well as budgetary lines, financial years, and other information that makes it adapted for both personal and associative accounting.

Grisbi can import accounts from QIF, OFX and Gnucash files. It can print reports using LaTeX or export them via HTML.

There are three methods to install grisbi 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 grisbi Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install grisbi using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install grisbi

Install grisbi Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install grisbi using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install grisbi

Install grisbi 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 grisbi using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install grisbi

How To Uninstall grisbi on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the grisbi package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove grisbi

Uninstall grisbi And Its Dependencies

To uninstall grisbi and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove grisbi

Remove grisbi Configurations and Data

To remove grisbi configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge grisbi

Remove grisbi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove grisbi configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grisbi

Dependencies

grisbi have the following dependencies:

References

grisbi website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install grisbi package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.