I have been running beancount a few years - I'm no expert but I do use it regularly for personal and company finances.
I recently upgraded to an M1 Air and had almost no trouble at all with porting my environment to the new machine (at least the beancount part of things). What is different for me? Or how does this work for me? I make extensive use of `pyenv` to install and maintain python installations *per project.* I have a bean python install that only contains the pip packages that I need for my beancounting. I find that this approach leads to happiness when doing python things. (I leave the system install alone and let the system use it.) As you mentioned homebrew; I'll chime in that this is what I use. My bootstrapping for the M1 was something like (psuedo code) 1. git clone MY_PERSONAL_PRIVATE_BC_REPO (or otherwise make the files appear) 2. install XCode command line tools - double check that xcrun is in your path 3. run my bootstrap script which you can find here <https://gist.github.com/muonzoo/262e0b5cac4be10874f1daba49340216> : 4. (note it also calls first-step.sh -- you can find that here <https://gist.github.com/muonzoo/bf5c08bb659088943c54ba0ba78a16b2>) 5. Happiness. You will note that these scripts also build and install python 3.9.9 as a virtualenv and then install beancount via pip-tools. Once you setup the pyenv virtualenv (and activate it with pyenv activate bean) you can just install beancount and fava by hand. I will note that I build fava too - since I sometimes hack on it a little bit. If you install from pipy you likely don't need the script that deals with building it. The minimum contents for requirements.in is likely: beancount<3 fava Hope this helps happily from an M1, Alan On Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 6:48:25 AM UTC [email protected] wrote: > thank you, yes that's right. the provided error message belongs to the > second attempt to re-install after running sudo pip3 install . > > I will follow the ideas provided above and see if I manage to get things > going. > > [email protected] schrieb am Mittwoch, 16. Februar 2022 um 21:22:38 UTC+1: > >> On 16/02/2022 16:51, david e wrote: >> > I am on a new device and want to give beancount another try to keep >> this >> > years finances in order. I am on a m1 air. >> > >> > yesterday I installed beancount v2 from docs and did a quick check with >> > 'bean-check' returning no error – fine. >> > >> > today I get 'bean-check: command not found', so the installation >> doesn't >> > seem to be permanent. >> > >> > error message: >> > >> > WARNING: The directory '/Users/de/Library/Caches/pip' or its parent >> > directory is not owned or is not writable by the current user. The >> cache >> > has been disabled. Check the permissions and owner of that directory. >> If >> > executing pip with sudo, you should use sudo's -H flag. >> > Requirement already satisfied: beancount in >> > >> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages >> >> >> > (3.0.0.dev0) >> > Requirement already satisfied: python-dateutil in >> > >> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages >> >> >> > (from beancount) (2.8.2) >> > Requirement already satisfied: ply in >> > >> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages >> >> >> > (from beancount) (3.11) >> > Requirement already satisfied: click in >> > >> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages >> >> >> > (from beancount) (8.0.3) >> > Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.5 in >> > >> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages >> >> >> > (from python-dateutil->beancount) (1.16.0) >> > WARNING: Running pip as the 'root' user can result in broken >> permissions >> > and conflicting behaviour with the system package manager. It is >> > recommended to use a virtual environment instead: >> > https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv >> > >> > any ideas? thanks >> >> The provided information is not really enough to help you. I don't see >> what is the relation between the "command not found" shell error and the >> pip warning message below. >> >> However, this seems a general problem of installing Python packages on >> macOS, apparently with the stock Python provided by the OS. It is >> unlikely to be an issue related to the architecture, more probably it is >> related to the OS version. Asking for guidance on a Python users support >> channel may be more appropriate. >> >> I don't have any device running macOS 11, thus providing detailed >> guidance is very difficult. However, if someone wants to send a M1 >> machine this direction, I would be more than happy to help sort out any >> issue related to running Beancount on one such machine :) >> >> Cheers, >> Dan >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/8de17b49-956e-410e-9ec3-09b4a1f49e2fn%40googlegroups.com.
