How To Install hledger-web on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hledger-web
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is hledger-web
hledger-web is:
hledger is a haskell port and friendly fork of John Wiegley’s ledger accounting tool. This package provides a web interface as an alternative to the hledger command line interface.
There are three methods to install hledger-web
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install hledger-web 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-web
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hledger-web
Install hledger-web Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hledger-web
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hledger-web
Install hledger-web 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 hledger-web
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hledger-web
How To Uninstall hledger-web on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the hledger-web
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hledger-web
Uninstall hledger-web And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hledger-web
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hledger-web
Remove hledger-web Configurations and Data
To remove hledger-web
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hledger-web
Remove hledger-web configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hledger-web
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hledger-web
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hledger-web
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.