Is ledger available in debian or ubuntu package manager?

[Scott Carpenter]

I'm trying on a couple of docker images and getting, for example with Debian:

root@4be055ba3998:/# apt-get install ledger

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package ledger

Thank you!

[Jacob MacDonald]

(On Pop!_OS here, but) Ledger seems to be in the Ubuntu universe list.
Are those enabled in your docker images? I've had to manually allow
them on every Debian-based install I've used.

[o1bigtenor]

Just checked using a search engine - - - - on debian its just apt
install ledger.
Ubuntu IIRC is sudo install ledger.

Dunno why you're not finding it.
Maybe time to check your /etc/apt/sources.list file.

HTH

[Scott Carpenter]

Thanks for the replies, Jacob and HTH!

Your answers caused me to poke around further. It looks like apt and apt-get both work the same in debian.

My problem was that I wasn't running "apt update" first. (Sigh.)

Running update and then the install and it works fine. (Huzzah!)

Thanks again!

$ docker run -it python:3 /bin/bash

root@fa0b1041fdd9:/# apt update

Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease [122 kB]

Get:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease [65.4 kB]

Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease [49.3 kB]

Get:4 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates/main amd64 Packages [177 kB]

Get:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages [7907 kB]

Get:6 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates/main amd64 Packages [5792 B]

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Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

29 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

root@fa0b1041fdd9:/# apt install ledger

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

The following additional packages will be installed:

  libboost-filesystem1.67.0 libboost-iostreams1.67.0 libboost-python1.67.0 libboost-regex1.67.0 libboost-system1.67.0 libpython2.7

Suggested packages:

  elpa-ledger python-ledger

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  ledger libboost-filesystem1.67.0 libboost-iostreams1.67.0 libboost-python1.67.0 libboost-regex1.67.0 libboost-system1.67.0 libpython2.7

0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 29 not upgraded.

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