How To Install eekboek on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install eekboek on Debian 10.
What is eekboek
eekboek is:
EekBoek is a bookkeeping package for Dutch users; it creates reports such as a balance sheet (“Balans”), a general journal (“Journaal”), a general ledger (“Grootboek”) and a VAT report (“BTW-aangifte”).
Unlike other accounting software, EekBoek has a command-line interface: The EekBoek Shell (with tab completion). It uses a database as back end: either PostgreSQL (using the eekboek-db-postgresql package) or SQLite. Interoperability is a key feature of EekBoek: editable text dumps of all your data are possible at any time. EekBoek can generate an “XML Auditfile Financieel” (XAF) as used by Dutch tax office. Furthermore, it has a complete Perl API to create your own custom applications.
The EekBoek documentation is available in Dutch only.
If you’d like to use EekBoek with a PostgreSQL back end (instead of the default SQLite), install the package eekboek-db-postgresql. If you’d like to use the Eekboek GUI, install the suggested package eekboek-gui.
There are three methods to install eekboek 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 eekboek Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install eekboek using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install eekboek
Install eekboek Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install eekboek using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install eekboek
Install eekboek 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 eekboek using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install eekboek
How To Uninstall eekboek on Debian 10
To uninstall only the eekboek package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove eekboek
Uninstall eekboek And Its Dependencies
To uninstall eekboek and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove eekboek
Remove eekboek Configurations and Data
To remove eekboek configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge eekboek
Remove eekboek configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove eekboek configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eekboek
Dependencies
eekboek have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install eekboek package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.