How To Install gnucash-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnucash-common
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gnucash-common
gnucash-common is:
Gnucash provides accounting functions suitable for use by small businesses and individuals. It can track finances in multiple accounts, keeping running and reconciled balances. There is support for customer, vendor and employee processing. It has an X based graphical user interface, double entry, a hierarchy of accounts, expense accounts (categories), and can import Quicken QIF files and OFX files.
This package contains the architecture independent parts of Gnucash. It should not be installed directly, but is pulled in automatically by the dependencies of the Gnucash package.
Package: gnucash-common Architecture: all Version: 1:3.8b-1build4 Priority: extra Section: universe/gnome Source: gnucash Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Dmitry Smirnov [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 41130 Depends: dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, libjs-jquery Recommends: gnucash (>= 1:3.8b-1build4) Breaks: gnucash (« 2.4.0-1~) Replaces: gnucash (« 2.4.0-1~) Filename: pool/universe/g/gnucash/gnucash-common_3.8b-1build4_all.deb Size: 5164244 MD5sum: 6e4e36687eb793cb3b058d205bb015c3 SHA1: de80dbad09974d4edb18862017ab5eae393e7249 SHA256: db2e564887e3f56828e8d376deb38046f9bbded30d3b92fb3584ec6a74c134e2 Homepage: http://www.gnucash.org/ Description-en: common files for the financial-accounting software Gnucash Gnucash provides accounting functions suitable for use by small businesses and individuals. It can track finances in multiple accounts, keeping running and reconciled balances. There is support for customer, vendor and employee processing. It has an X based graphical user interface, double entry, a hierarchy of accounts, expense accounts (categories), and can import Quicken QIF files and OFX files.
This package contains the architecture independent parts of Gnucash. It should not be installed directly, but is pulled in automatically by the dependencies of the Gnucash package.
There are three methods to install gnucash-common
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gnucash-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnucash-common
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnucash-common
Install gnucash-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnucash-common
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnucash-common
Install gnucash-common 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 gnucash-common
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnucash-common
How To Uninstall gnucash-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gnucash-common
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnucash-common
Uninstall gnucash-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnucash-common
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnucash-common
Remove gnucash-common Configurations and Data
To remove gnucash-common
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnucash-common
Remove gnucash-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnucash-common
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnucash-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnucash-common
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.