bean-web command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix bean-web command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

bean-web: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bean-web: command not found

Solutions to bean-web: command not found

How To Fix bean-web: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu bean-web is provided by beancount package.

beancount is:

A double-entry bookkeeping computer language that lets you define financial transaction records in a text file, read them in memory, generate a variety of reports from them, and provides a web interface.

The following features require the following extra dependencies to be installed:

  • Beancount Web [python3-bottle]
  • OFX import [python3-bs4]
  • Google Sheets upload [python3-googleapi]
  • External price imports [python3-requests]

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install beancount

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install beancount.

sudo apt -y install beancount

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install beancount

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix bean-web command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.