How To Install ledger on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ledger
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is ledger
ledger is:
Ledger is a powerful and flexible double-entry accounting system run entirely from the command line. Your accounts ledger is stored in one or more plain-text files with a very simple and readable format, and ledger does the hard work of balancing your books and reporting.
There are three methods to install ledger
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ledger Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ledger
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ledger
Install ledger Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ledger
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ledger
Install ledger 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 ledger
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ledger
How To Uninstall ledger on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the ledger
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ledger
Uninstall ledger And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ledger
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ledger
Remove ledger Configurations and Data
To remove ledger
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ledger
Remove ledger configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ledger
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ledger
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ledger
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.