diff --git a/container/src/finance/lib/internal/lib_edit.bash b/container/src/finance/lib/internal/lib_edit.bash
index 4e45bd6..36e02f4 100644
--- a/container/src/finance/lib/internal/lib_edit.bash
+++ b/container/src/finance/lib/internal/lib_edit.bash
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ function lib_edit::__parse_args()
 function lib_edit::__edit()
 {
   [ -z "$EDITOR" ] && lib_utils::die_fatal
+  lib_utils::deps_check "$(basename $EDITOR)"
 
   for _type in "${global_arg_type[@]}"; do
     case "$_type" in
@@ -247,6 +248,7 @@ function lib_edit::__edit()
         [ ! -f "$_path" ] && touch "$_path"
 
         if [[ "$_type" == "iadd" ]]; then
+          lib_utils::deps_check "hledger-iadd"
           hledger-iadd -f "$_path" || lib_utils::die_fatal
         fi
 
@@ -274,6 +276,8 @@ function lib_edit::__edit()
         #    original file's comments.
         local -r _skip="$(grep -E "^//!" $_path | wc -l)"
         local -r _args=("--quitguard" "--motd-url" "file:///dev/null" "--filetype" "csv" "--skip" "$_skip" "$_path")
+
+        lib_utils::deps_check "visidata"
         visidata "${_args[@]}" || lib_utils::die_fatal
 
         # TODO: HACK: visidata saves w/ DOS-style carriage...
diff --git a/container/src/finance/lib/internal/lib_fetch.bash b/container/src/finance/lib/internal/lib_fetch.bash
index 0a8fa88..d0ed4f7 100644
--- a/container/src/finance/lib/internal/lib_fetch.bash
+++ b/container/src/finance/lib/internal/lib_fetch.bash
@@ -831,17 +831,22 @@ function lib_fetch::__fetch_exec()
   #
 
   local _exec=()
-  [[ "$global_arg_tor" =~ ^on$|^true$ ]] && _exec+=("proxychains") # Wrap with proxychains
+  if [[ "$global_arg_tor" =~ ^on$|^true$ ]]; then
+    lib_utils::deps_check "proxychains"
+    _exec+=("proxychains") # Wrap with proxychains
+  fi
 
   # Test for Tor plugin
   if [ ! -z "${_exec[*]}" ]; then
+    lib_utils::deps_check "curl"
     if ! "${_exec[@]}" curl -s "https://check.torproject.org" &>/dev/null; then
       lib_utils::die_fatal "Tor plugin not started (or needs restart)"
     fi
   fi
 
   # TODO: remove no-limit after internal fetching writes per-paginated instead of per-fetch
-  _exec+=("/usr/bin/php" "-d" "memory_limit=\"-1\"" "-d" "include_path=\"/usr/local/lib:${_dir}\"")
+  lib_utils::deps_check "php"
+  _exec+=("php" "-d" "memory_limit=\"-1\"" "-d" "include_path=\"/usr/local/lib:${_dir}\"")
   lib_utils::print_debug "${_exec[@]}"
 
   #
diff --git a/container/src/finance/lib/internal/lib_ledger.bash b/container/src/finance/lib/internal/lib_ledger.bash
index 7c68ba3..dd9420a 100644
--- a/container/src/finance/lib/internal/lib_ledger.bash
+++ b/container/src/finance/lib/internal/lib_ledger.bash
@@ -82,9 +82,8 @@ function lib_ledger::__ledger()
   #  hledger 1.34, linux-x86_64
   #  hledger 1.34.99-gcf0c7c2ef-20240702, linux-x86_64
   #
-  # TODO: hope that container platforms will package 1.35 before 1.40 rolls out
-  #
 
+  # TODO: remove now that 1.40 is guaranteed minimum
   # 1.34.99 and above
   hledger --version \
     | gawk '{ if ($2 !~ /^1.3(4.99|([5-9][\.[0-99]?))/) { exit 1 } }' FS=' '
diff --git a/container/src/finance/lib/internal/lib_meta.bash b/container/src/finance/lib/internal/lib_meta.bash
index 61eedf6..cd3f9b0 100644
--- a/container/src/finance/lib/internal/lib_meta.bash
+++ b/container/src/finance/lib/internal/lib_meta.bash
@@ -102,6 +102,8 @@ $(echo $global_meta_header | xsv headers -)
 
 function lib_meta::__meta()
 {
+  lib_utils::deps_check "visidata"
+
   # TODO: can visidata regex multiple columns from the commandline?
   local _tmp_dir
   _tmp_dir="$(mktemp -d -p /tmp docker-finance_XXX)"
diff --git a/container/src/finance/lib/internal/lib_times.bash b/container/src/finance/lib/internal/lib_times.bash
index a78bb3e..5b4a049 100644
--- a/container/src/finance/lib/internal/lib_times.bash
+++ b/container/src/finance/lib/internal/lib_times.bash
@@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ function lib_times::__times()
   local -r _timewdb="${_path}/timew"
 
   local _command=("timew")
+  lib_utils::deps_check "${_command[*]}"
+
   local -r _tag="${global_parent_profile}${global_arg_delim_1}${global_child_profile}"
 
   case "$1" in
diff --git a/container/src/finance/lib/lib_finance.bash b/container/src/finance/lib/lib_finance.bash
index 3e0386b..aa95a68 100644
--- a/container/src/finance/lib/lib_finance.bash
+++ b/container/src/finance/lib/lib_finance.bash
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ function lib_finance::finance()
   fi
 
   declare -grx global_child_profile_journal="${global_child_profile_flow}/all-years.journal"
-  declare -grx global_hledger_cmd=("/usr/bin/hledger" "-f" "$global_child_profile_journal")
+  declare -grx global_hledger_cmd=("hledger" "-f" "$global_child_profile_journal")
 
   # Globals (configuration)
   declare -grx global_conf_fetch="${global_child_profile_flow}/docker-finance.d/fetch/fetch.yaml"
@@ -215,6 +215,8 @@ function lib_finance::reports()
 
 function lib_finance::root()
 {
+  # TODO: lib_root, add extendable arguments
+  lib_utils::deps_check "root"
   # NOTE: will automatically load rootlogon.C
   pushd "${DOCKER_FINANCE_CONTAINER_REPO}/src/root/macro" 1>/dev/null \
     && root -l