I think the short answer is 'there is no beancount executable', the 'beancount' you installed is like a wrapper to those other applications. I agree the docs and the process can be kind of confusing, but let me see if I can point you in the right direction. I am also new to beancount so if anyone else wants to chime in who has much more experience please do.
It seems you have beancount properly installed so no worries there, your next step would be to create your beancount ledger file, you can take a look at the docs here https://beancount.github.io/docs/getting_started_with_beancount.html , which are still applicable. Basically open up your favorite text editor and create a file, you can name it whatever you would like but some common extensions are '.beancount', '.bean', '.bc', '.ledger', etc. So for example you could call it 'ledger.bean'. Use 'bean-check' to check your file for syntax and accounting errors. For example 'bean-check ledger.bean'. Use 'bean-format' to line up all of your currencies on the same line. For example 'bean-format ledger.bean'. This will just print your file to your terminal, so if you want to save it back to your original file use 'bean-format ledger.bean -o ledger.bean'. If you want to see some reports you will need to install either 'fava' or 'beanquery' which are separate applications. Fava is a web interface to view and edit your beancount file and shows you some reports, which I would highly recommend you install. You can find the documentation for fava here https://beancount.github.io/fava/ . Once you have it installed run it and pass in your beancount file, for example 'fava ledger.bean'. Now open up your browser and go to http://localhost:5000 http://localhost:5000/ and profit! Fava is a very powerful tool, it's still in development but you can already do a lot with it. Beanquery is another separate application which will let you see reports in your terminal, you can install it with pip as well 'pip install beanquery'. There is not much documentation for the newest version of beanquery but for the most part you can use the old documentation which is here https://beancount.github.io/docs/beancount_query_language.html . You can learn more about transactions and their syntax here https://beancount.github.io/docs/beancount_language_syntax.html#transactions . I believe you had another question on the mailing list asking about how to track donor information, so maybe that documentation can help you out. I'm assuming since you installed beancount through pip that you are on the latest version '3.0.0'. One thing to watch out for is when installing fava it may override your beancount version back to v2, a way around this is to install fava FIRST and then install beancount. Fava, even though it is on the v2 beancount, will still work with any beancount ledger file seeing as the syntax has not changed between v2 and v3 (from what I understand). Hope this helps! September 26, 2024 at 7:30 PM, "Rick F" <r...@jesusministries.org mailto:r...@jesusministries.org?to=%22Rick%20F%22%20%3Crick%40jesusministries.org%3E > wrote: > > nevermind my nevermind.. I didn't notice my beancount find was a directory > not an actual script or executable.. oh well.. I'll keep digging > > -- > 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 beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > mailto:beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/179a2b9c-8bdb-4f9c-915b-ac1c52b5a851n%40googlegroups.com > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/179a2b9c-8bdb-4f9c-915b-ac1c52b5a851n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > . > Oscar & Alejandra Camorlinga m...@aleyoscar.com mailto:m...@aleyoscar.com -- 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 beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/2d78e03f9a0bd7b83ef2a55256b664599e7f6e27%40aleyoscar.com.
