How To Install beancounter on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install beancounter on Ubuntu 22.04. beancounter is A stock portfolio performance monitoring tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install beancounter on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is beancounter

beancounter is:

This package provides beancounter, a tool to quantify gains and losses in stock portfolios, as well as the BeanCounter Perl module that underlies it. Beancounter queries stock prices from Yahoo! Finance server(s) around the globe and stores them in a relational database (using PostgreSQL) so that the data can be used for further analysis. Canned performance and risk reports are available.

There are three methods to install beancounter on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install beancounter Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install beancounter

Install beancounter Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install beancounter

Install beancounter 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 beancounter using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install beancounter

How To Uninstall beancounter on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove beancounter

Uninstall beancounter And Its Dependencies

To uninstall beancounter and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove beancounter

Remove beancounter Configurations and Data

To remove beancounter configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge beancounter

Remove beancounter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge beancounter

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install beancounter package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.