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title: hledger Installation Guide
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# Installation Guide
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hledger works on GNU/linux, mac and windows.
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Here are several ways to install it.
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## Install with your system package manager
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If you have a system package manager that includes hledger,
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this will be the quickest and easiest way to install,
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if you don't need the very latest version.
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Debian, Ubuntu: `apt-get install hledger [hledger-web]`
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Red Hat, Fedora: `yum install hledger`
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## Install binaries from hledger.org
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[Ready-to-run binaries](DOWNLOAD.html) for GNU/Linux, Mac OSX, and Microsoft Windows can be downloaded from this site.
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They are out of date, but you can fund new ones with a donation of any size (see the page for more).
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This is probably the easiest way to install hledger on windows and mac.
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The binaries do not currently include installers, so after downloading
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you may need to decompress, make executable, and/or rename the file. Eg:
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$ gunzip hledger-web-0.18.2-mac-x86_64.gz
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$ chmod +x hledger-web-0.18.2-mac-x86_64
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$ mv hledger-web-0.18.2-mac-x86_64 /usr/local/bin/hledger-web
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$ /usr/local/bin/hledger-web --version
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## Install from hackage with cabal
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You can download and build the latest release yourself using cabal, the standard installer for Haskell software.
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This is the most common way to install hledger, but not always the easiest;
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use the troubleshooting tips below if needed.
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Ensure you have [GHC](http://hackage.haskell.org/ghc/) or
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the [Haskell Platform](http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/) installed.
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hledger requires GHC 7.2 or greater, and hledger-web requires GHC 7.4 or greater.
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Also note that some Haskell packages depend on C packages, and cabal
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currently isn't able to install or identify those for you. A common
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issue is not having all the ncurses C libraries installed. A quick way
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to ensure you have all required C libs is to
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[install hledger once with your system package manager](#install-with-your-system-package-manager)
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before installing the latest version with cabal.
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Then install the hledger command-line tool:
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$ cabal update
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$ cabal install hledger [--dry-run]
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$ hledger --version
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You should see the proper version reported.
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If you get "could not resolve dependencies", "hledger not found",
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or any other problem, see [troubleshooting](#troubleshooting).
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Also note, to use non-ascii characters like £ in your data, you might need to [configure a suitable locale](MANUAL.html#locale).
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To also install the web interface (slightly harder), do:
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$ cabal install hledger-web [--dry-run]
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$ hledger-web --version
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This also installs hledger if not already installed, and the hledger-web command
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will also be available as hledger's `web` subcommand.
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Other add-on packages are available on Hackage, although some of these are
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unmaintained or work only on certain platforms:
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- [hledger-chart](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hledger-chart)
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- [hledger-interest](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hledger-interest)
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- [hledger-irr](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hledger-irr)
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- [hledger-vty](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hledger-vty)
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## Install the latest development version
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To download and build the latest development version of hledger, ensure you have
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[git](http://git-scm.com) installed, then:
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$ git clone http://github.com/simonmichael/hledger.git
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$ cd hledger
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$ cabal update
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$ cabal install ./hledger-lib ./hledger [./hledger-web]
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The same [notes above](#install-from-hackage-with-cabal) about requirements and checking your installation apply.
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## Troubleshooting
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There are a lot of ways things can go wrong. Here are
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some known issues and things to try. Please also seek
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[support](DEVELOPMENT.html#support) from the
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[IRC channel](irc://irc.freenode.net/#ledger),
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[mail list](http://hledger.org/list) or
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[bug tracker](http://hledger.org/bugs).
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Starting from the top, consider whether each of these might apply to
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you. Tip: blindly reinstalling/upgrading everything in sight probably
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won't work, it's better to go in small steps and understand the problem,
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or get help.
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#. **hledger not found ?**
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If cabal install succeeded but you get a message like "hledger not found" when you run hledger,
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you should add cabal's bin directory to your PATH environment variable.
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Eg on unix-like systems, something like:
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$ echo 'export PATH=$PATH:~/cabal/bin' >> ~/.bash_profile
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$ source ~/.bash_profile
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#. **hledger --version shows unexpected version ?**
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Perhaps you have multiple versions of hledger in your PATH. Eg you installed with the system package manager
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(to get C libs) and then with cabal (to get the latest version), but cabal's bin directory appears too late
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in the PATH. Move it closer to the front.
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#. **Did you cabal update ?**
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If not, `cabal update` and try again.
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#. **Do you have a new enough version of GHC ?**
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Run `ghc --version`. hledger requires GHC 7.0 or greater
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(and on [some platforms](#5551), 7.2.1+ can be helpful).
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#. **Do you have a new enough version of cabal ?**
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Avoid ancient versions, which are less capable and more confusing.
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`cabal --version` should probably report at least 1.16 (and for sandboxed
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installs, 1.18+). You may be able to upgrade it with:
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$ cabal update
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$ cabal install cabal-install
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#. **Are your installed GHC/cabal packages in good repair ?**
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Run `ghc-pkg check`. If it reports problems, some of your packages have
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become inconsistent, and you should fix these first.
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[ghc-pkg-clean](https://gist.github.com/1185421) is an easy way.
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#. **cabal says "rejecting: system-fileio-0.3.11, 0.3.10 (conflict: blah blah blah.."**
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system-fileio does not yet allow text 1.x, making cabal sweat.
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If your cabal is modern enough, adding `--max-backjumps=10000` should help.
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([more](https://groups.google.com/d/topic/hledger/FdWGTSAVzYU/discussion)).
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#. <a name="cabaldeps" />**cabal can't satisfy the new dependencies due to old installed packages**
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Cabal dependency failures become more likely as you install more
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packages over time. If `cabal install hledger-web --dry` says it can't
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satisfy dependencies, you have this problem. You can:
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a. try to understand which packages to remove (with `ghc-pkg unregister`)
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or which constraints to add (with `--constraint 'PKG == ...'`) to help cabal
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find a solution
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b. install into a fresh environment created with
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[virthualenv](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/virthualenv) or
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[cabal-dev](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-dev)
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c. or (easiest) erase your installed packages with
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[ghc-pkg-reset](https://gist.github.com/1185421) and try again.
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#. **Dependency or compilation error in one of the new packages ?**
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If cabal starts downloading and building packages and then terminates
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with an error, look at the output carefully and identify the problem
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package(s). If necessary, add `-v2` or `-v3` for more verbose
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output. You can install the new packages one at a time to troubleshoot,
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but remember cabal is smarter when installing all packages at once.
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Often the problem is that you need to install a particular C library
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using your platform's package management system. Or the dependencies
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specified on a package may need updating. Or there may be a compilation
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error. If you find an error in a hledger package, check the
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[recent commits](http://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/commits) to
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see if the [latest development version](#installing) might have a fix.
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#. **ExitFailure 11**
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See
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[http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/777](http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/777).
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This means that a build process has been killed, usually because it grew
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too large. This is common on memory-limited VPS's and with GHC 7.4.1.
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Look for some memory-hogging processes you can kill, increase your RAM,
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or limit GHC's heap size by doing `cabal install ... --ghc-options='+RTS
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-M400m'` (400 megabytes works well on my 1G VPS, adjust up or down..)
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#. <a name="5551" />**Can't load .so/.DLL for: ncursesw (/usr/lib/libncursesw.so: file too short)**
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(or similar): cf [GHC bug #5551](http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5551).
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Upgrade GHC to 7.2.1, or try your luck with [this workaround](http://eclipsefp.github.com/faq.html).
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#. <a name="iconv" />**Undefined iconv symbols on OS X**
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This kind of error:
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Linking dist/build/hledger/hledger ...
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Undefined symbols:
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"_iconv_close", referenced from:
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_hs_iconv_close in libHSbase-4.2.0.2.a(iconv.o)
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"_iconv", referenced from:
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_hs_iconv in libHSbase-4.2.0.2.a(iconv.o)
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"_iconv_open", referenced from:
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_hs_iconv_open in libHSbase-4.2.0.2.a(iconv.o)
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probably means you are on a mac with macports libraries installed, cf
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[http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4068](http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4068).
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To work around temporarily, add this --extra-lib-dirs flag:
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$ cabal install hledger --extra-lib-dirs=/usr/lib
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or permanently, add this to ~/.cabal/config:
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extra-lib-dirs: /usr/lib
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#. **hledger-vty requires curses-related libraries**
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On Ubuntu, eg, you'll need the `libncurses5-dev` package. On Windows,
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these are not available (unless perhaps via Cygwin.)
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#. **hledger-chart requires GTK-related libraries**
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On Ubuntu, eg, install the `libghc6-gtk-dev` package. See also [Gtk2Hs installation notes](http://code.haskell.org/gtk2hs/INSTALL).
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