How To Install hledger on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hledger on Debian 9.
What is hledger
hledger is:
hledger is a Haskell port and friendly fork of John Wiegley’s ledger accounting tool. This package provides the main hledger command-line tool; see the other hledger-* packages for web and curses interfaces and chart generation. hledger aims to be a reliable, practical financial reporting tool for day-to-day use, and also a useful library for building financial apps in haskell. Given a plain text file describing transactions, of money or any other commodity,
hledger will print the chart of accounts, account balances, or transactions you’re interested in. It can also help you add transactions to the journal file, or convert CSV data from your bank.
There are three methods to install hledger on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install hledger Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hledger using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hledger
Install hledger Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hledger using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hledger
Install hledger 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 hledger using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hledger
How To Uninstall hledger on Debian 9
To uninstall only the hledger package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hledger
Uninstall hledger And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hledger and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hledger
Remove hledger Configurations and Data
To remove hledger configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hledger
Remove hledger configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hledger configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hledger
Dependencies
hledger have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hledger package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.