beancount-fava-starter

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A starter repository to try fava / beancount.

See awesome-beancount for introduction and other resources around beancount / fava

Requirements

MacOS / Linux / Unices: a recent installation with bash and python3 is likely to be fine. Some distributions require python3-venv python3-dev or alike package.
Windows (WSL2): Should work like a Linux Distribution

(If you have trouble running, issues/PRs are welcome)

How to use

Download and extract this repository
Start fava process
- in MacOS: you can just double click fava in Finder
- in Linux / Windows WSL / other Unices: in terminal, cd into this repository and run ./fava.
Open fava web UI as instructed
If it works, browser should show a few example accounts and transactions. You can look around, or mangle main.beancount and add your own contents.

(if it doesn't work, something may went wrong during downloading packages)