How To Install clipf on Debian 10

Learn how to install clipf on Debian 10 with this tutorial. clipf is command line minimalistic personal finance manager

Introduction

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

What is clipf

clipf is:

‘clipf’ is a minimalistic personal finance manager with command line interface, written on Python.

hierarchical list of income/expense items. Item defined by segmented item code like food.drink.beer. Tab-completion make it easy to enter even long item codes. Reporting by item groups on any level of hierarchy.

Track turnover and remains by several independent accounts.

Export reports to text files also features aliases for frequently used commands.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install clipf

Install clipf Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install clipf

Install clipf 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 clipf using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install clipf

How To Uninstall clipf on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove clipf

Uninstall clipf And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove clipf

Remove clipf Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge clipf

Remove clipf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clipf

Dependencies

clipf have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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