How To Install ofxstatement-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install ofxstatement-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04. ofxstatement-plugins is set of plugins for ofxstatement

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ofxstatement-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is ofxstatement-plugins

ofxstatement-plugins is:

Most internet banking systems are capable of exporting account transactions to some sort of computer readable formats, but few supports standard data formats, like OFX. On the other hand, personal accounting tools, such as GnuCash support standard formats only, and will probably never support proprietary statement formats of online banking systems.

This package provides most of plugins referenced on ofxstatement’s homepage: ofxstatement-1822direkt ofxstatement-airbankcz ofxstatement-alfabank ofxstatement-austrian ofxstatement-be-ing ofxstatement-be-kbc ofxstatement-be-keytrade ofxstatement-be-triodos ofxstatement-betterment ofxstatement-bubbas ofxstatement-czech ofxstatement-is-arionbanki ofxstatement-iso20022 ofxstatement-latvian ofxstatement-lithuanian ofxstatement-mbank-sk ofxstatement-otp ofxstatement-paypal ofxstatement-polish ofxstatement-postfinance ofxstatement-raiffeisencz ofxstatement-russian ofxstatement-seb ofxstatement-simple ofxstatement-unicreditcz

There are three methods to install ofxstatement-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ofxstatement-plugins Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install ofxstatement-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ofxstatement-plugins

Install ofxstatement-plugins Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ofxstatement-plugins using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ofxstatement-plugins

Install ofxstatement-plugins 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 ofxstatement-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ofxstatement-plugins

How To Uninstall ofxstatement-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the ofxstatement-plugins package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ofxstatement-plugins

Uninstall ofxstatement-plugins And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ofxstatement-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ofxstatement-plugins

Remove ofxstatement-plugins Configurations and Data

To remove ofxstatement-plugins configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ofxstatement-plugins

Remove ofxstatement-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ofxstatement-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ofxstatement-plugins

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ofxstatement-plugins package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.