How To Install ledgerhelpers on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ledgerhelpers on Debian 12.
What is ledgerhelpers
ledgerhelpers is:
This is a collection of small single-purpose programs to aid your accounting with ledger. Think of it as the batteries that were never included with ledger. What can you do with these programs:
- Enter transactions easily with addtrans.
- Record multi-currency ATM withdrawals with withdraw-cli.
- Record FIFO stock or commodity sales with sellstock-cli.
- Interactively clear transactions with cleartrans-cli.
- Keep your ledger chronologically sorted with sorttrans-cli.
There are three methods to install ledgerhelpers on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ledgerhelpers Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ledgerhelpers using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ledgerhelpers
Install ledgerhelpers Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ledgerhelpers using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ledgerhelpers
Install ledgerhelpers 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 ledgerhelpers using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ledgerhelpers
How To Uninstall ledgerhelpers on Debian 12
To uninstall only the ledgerhelpers package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ledgerhelpers
Uninstall ledgerhelpers And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ledgerhelpers and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ledgerhelpers
Remove ledgerhelpers Configurations and Data
To remove ledgerhelpers configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ledgerhelpers
Remove ledgerhelpers configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ledgerhelpers configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ledgerhelpers
Dependencies
ledgerhelpers have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ledgerhelpers package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
