How To Install gnucash-docs on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnucash-docs on Debian 10.
What is gnucash-docs
gnucash-docs 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 GnuCash Help Manual and the GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide.
The Help Manual is a quick reference of how to accomplish specific tasks and how to use the features in GnuCash. The Tutorial and Concepts Guide is an in depth guide to the concepts behind using GnuCash with a tutorial to show how to put those concepts into practice.
These documents are available in HTML, PDF and DocBook formats (the latter is intended to be viewed with the GNOME Help browser).
Translations in German, Italian and Japanese are also included in this package (for Japanese, only the guide is available).
There are three methods to install gnucash-docs 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 gnucash-docs 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-docs using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnucash-docs
Install gnucash-docs Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnucash-docs using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnucash-docs
Install gnucash-docs 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 gnucash-docs using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnucash-docs
How To Uninstall gnucash-docs on Debian 10
To uninstall only the gnucash-docs package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnucash-docs
Uninstall gnucash-docs And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnucash-docs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnucash-docs
Remove gnucash-docs Configurations and Data
To remove gnucash-docs configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnucash-docs
Remove gnucash-docs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnucash-docs configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnucash-docs
Dependencies
gnucash-docs have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnucash-docs package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.