update_beancounter command not found

Introduction

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

update_beancounter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: update_beancounter: command not found

Solutions to update_beancounter: command not found

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

In Ubuntu update_beancounter is provided by beancounter package.

beancounter is:

This package provides beancounter, a tool to quantify gains and losses in stock portfolios, as well as the BeanCounter Perl module that underlies it. Beancounter queries stock prices from Yahoo! Finance server(s) around the globe and stores them in a relational database (using PostgreSQL) so that the data can be used for further analysis. Canned performance and risk reports are available.

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

sudo apt-get -y install beancounter

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

You can also use apt command to install beancounter.

sudo apt -y install beancounter

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

sudo aptitude install beancounter

Summary

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