How To Install eekboek-gui on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install eekboek-gui on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is eekboek-gui
eekboek-gui is:
This package includes ebwxshell, the EekBoek GUI. It offers an EekBoek browser, useful for viewing the administrative data. It’s especially useful for generating, printing and pinpointing reports. Furthermore, it offers a raw interface to the EekBoek Shell. Finally, it offers a Wizard to help configuring new bookkeeping administrations.
Install it if you need a friendly interface to the EekBoek reporting facilities, or if you would like help in configuring EekBoek. However, if you prefer working in pure text mode, or don’t like to install the WX graphical packages, you should not install this package.
There are three methods to install eekboek-gui 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 eekboek-gui Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install eekboek-gui using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install eekboek-gui
Install eekboek-gui Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install eekboek-gui using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install eekboek-gui
Install eekboek-gui 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 eekboek-gui using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install eekboek-gui
How To Uninstall eekboek-gui on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the eekboek-gui package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove eekboek-gui
Uninstall eekboek-gui And Its Dependencies
To uninstall eekboek-gui and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove eekboek-gui
Remove eekboek-gui Configurations and Data
To remove eekboek-gui configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge eekboek-gui
Remove eekboek-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove eekboek-gui configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eekboek-gui
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install eekboek-gui package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
