How To Install misery on Debian 10

Learn how to install misery on Debian 10 with this tutorial. misery is Simple accounting package for groups, clubs, holidays

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install misery on Debian 10.

What is misery

misery is:

Misery is a simple way to do accounting for things like clubs, and group holidays. Anything where you have things like shared food, transport, drinks/dinners out, group gear and so on. Data is entered as text files and it produces finished accounts as a set of HTML files which can be uploaded so participants can easily find out how much they owe/are owed. It is not a double-entry bookkeeping tool and it doesn’t do invoicing.

It has a number of useful features to make it easy to sort out bar and restaurant bills, deal with multiple currencies, recurring costs, beer tallies, bank accounts, and to check that categories sum to zero when they should.

There are three methods to install misery on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install misery Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install misery

Install misery Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install misery

Install misery 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install misery

How To Uninstall misery on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove misery

Uninstall misery And Its Dependencies

To uninstall misery and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove misery

Remove misery Configurations and Data

To remove misery configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge misery

Remove misery configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge misery

Dependencies

misery have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install misery package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.