ledger command not found

Introduction

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

ledger: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ledger: command not found

Solutions to ledger: command not found

How To Fix ledger: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ledger is provided by ledger package.

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.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ledger

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

You can also use apt command to install ledger.

sudo apt -y install ledger

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

sudo aptitude install ledger

Summary

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