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Here are the ways to install hledger, organised by platform, with the usually most up-to-date methods at the top.

( hledger’s usual release window is the first day or two of the month. Please send updates for this page, and help packagers keep packages up to date. Click the version badges on the right for package/contact info. )

		Latest release is 1.14.1 Release notes
Multiplatform	The first three build from source, which is slower. See Building from source.	This method installs:
hledger-install Linux, Mac, WSL Requires only bash.	curl -sO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simonmichael/hledger/master/hledger-install/hledger-install.sh less hledger-install.sh    # satisfy yourself that the script is safe bash hledger-install.sh	Latest release
stack Linux, Mac, Windows*	stack install --resolver=nightly-2019-03-09 hledger hledger-web hledger-ui	Latest release / any version
cabal Linux, Mac, Windows*	cabal v2-update && cabal v2-install hledger-1.14.1 hledger-web-1.14 hledger-ui-1.14	Latest release / any version
Docker Linux, Mac, Windows	docker pull dastapov/hledger	more..
Nix Linux, Mac	nix-env -i hledger-1.14.1 hledger-ui-1.14 hledger-web-1.14 nix-channel –update may be needed. CI build issues can cause failure/large downloads, check those links/try with –dry-run first.
Mac
Homebrew	brew install hledger
Windows
Windows binaries	hledger.zip from Appveyor CI
Linuxbrew	brew install hledger
GNU/Linux
Linuxbrew	brew install hledger
Arch	pacman -S hledger hledger-ui hledger-web
Gentoo	sudo layman -a haskell && sudo emerge hledger hledger-ui hledger-web
Debian	sudo apt install hledger hledger-ui hledger-web	more..
Ubuntu	sudo apt install hledger hledger-ui hledger-web	more..
Fedora	sudo dnf install hledger	more..
Void	xbps-install -S hledger hledger-ui hledger-web
BSD
OpenBSD WIP	make -C /usr/ports/openbsd-wip/productivity/hledger install	more..
Other
Sandstorm Community/private cloud platform	HLedger Web app

[nix-env -i hledger hledger-ui hledger-web]: [nix-env -i hledger-1.14.1 hledger-ui-1.14 hledger-web-1.14]: [nix-env -i -f ‘’ -A hledger hledger-ui hledger-web]: [fetches latest unstable]: [nix-env -i -f channel:nixos-unstable -A hledger hledger-ui hledger-web]:

Building from source

Building hledger from source takes a bit longer than using a prebuilt package, but you can be sure of getting the latest release (or the latest dev version).

Below are three ways to build hledger. But first, some general tips:

• Building Haskell programs involves downloading and building and optimising a lot of dependencies. If you haven’t built Haskell software before, your first hledger build could take up to an hour, 1-2G of free memory, and 1-2G of disk.

• Future builds will be much faster.

• You can kill a build and restart it later without losing progress.

• If you get link errors (eg: “/bin/ld.gold: error: cannot find -ltinfo”), you might need to install some extra system packages (C packages provided by your platform - not haskell packages) and try again. To find the right system package, check the list below, or do a web search for the error message (and please send updates for this list):

  CentOS:	sudo yum install -y libstdc++-devel ncurses-devel zlib-devel
  Debian, Ubuntu:	sudo apt install -y libtinfo-dev
  Fedora, RHEL:	sudo dnf install -y gmp-devel ncurses-devel

• Here are some known build issues and workarounds on certain platforms:

  windows: hledger-ui is not available
  windows: build hangs using GHC 8.6.3
  windows: cross-environment non-ascii display issues
  arch: haskell build advice from Arch wiki
  arch: No information found for ghc-8.4.2
  freebsd 12: no cabal file found
  openbsd 6: exec permission denied
  openbsd: how to get stack
  

• If you have trouble, please send me a copy/paste of the output, including the commands you typed, at least up to the first error, via paste + IRC, or the issue tracker, or email.

Building with hledger-install.sh

If you don’t already have stack or cabal, or if you are having trouble with them, hledger-install.sh is an easy and reliable way to get the latest hledger, on systems which have the bash shell (and are supported by GHC: mac, linux, unix-like environments on windows..). It automates the installation of stack or cabal and then building the hledger tools, avoiding common pitfalls. Here’s how to run it (or, some folks will prefer to pipe it directly into bash):

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simonmichael/hledger/master/hledger-install/hledger-install.sh > hledger-install.sh
less hledger-install.sh # satisfy yourself that the script is safe
bash hledger-install.sh

Building with stack

stack is the more reliable of Haskell’s two build tools for new users. You need stack 1.7.1 or newer; the latest release (eg 1.9.3) is the most reliable. You can often run stack upgrade to upgrade it. 64-bit Windows users should choose the 64-bit version of stack. The following command installs the main hledger packages;

stack install --resolver=lts-13 hledger-lib-1.14 hledger-1.14.1 hledger-web-1.14 \
  hledger-ui-1.14 brick-0.46 text-zipper-0.10.1 config-ini-0.2.4.0 data-clist-0.1.2.2 word-wrap-0.4.1

If needed, you can save some time by omitting the hledger-web and hledger-ui packages (and hledger-ui’s extra dependencies: brick, text-zipper, config-ini etc.) On Windows, hledger-ui is not available. To estimate the build time remaining, add --dry-run.

Some other add-on tools like hledger-api, hledger-iadd, and hledger-interest can be installed like so:

stack install --resolver=lts-13 hledger-lib-1.14 hledger-1.14.1 hledger-api-1.14 \
  hledger-interest-1.5.3 hledger-iadd-1.3.9 brick-0.46 text-zipper-0.10.1 config-ini-0.2.4.0 data-clist-0.1.2.2 word-wrap-0.4.1

Building with cabal

cabal is the other Haskell build tool. If you’re a cabal expert, use it in the usual way, eg:

cabal v2-update
cabal v2-install hledger-1.14.1 hledger-ui-1.14 hledger-web-1.14 \
  hledger-api-1.14 hledger-iadd-1.3.9 hledger-interest-1.5.3

Set up PATH

After building you may see a message about where the executables were installed. After installation, make sure this install directory is configured in your shell’s $PATH (preferably near the start of it, to preempt older hledger system packages you may have installed). The install directory is:

	on non-Windows systems	on Windows
If stack was used	$HOME/.local/bin	%APPDATA%\local\bin (eg C:\Users\Joe\AppData\Roaming\local\bin)
If cabal was used	$HOME/.cabal/bin	%APPDATA%\cabal\bin

How to configure $PATH is platform- and shell-specific. If you are using bash, this should take care of it:

echo "export PATH=~/.local/bin:~/.cabal/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc

Test the installation

You should now be able to run the hledger tools (whichever ones you installed) and see the expected versions:

$hledger --version
hledger 1.14.1
$hledger-ui --version
hledger-ui 1.14
$hledger web --version
hledger-web 1.14
$hledger iadd --version
This is hledger-iadd version 1.3.9

And you can check that the unit tests pass (just for fun):

$hledger test
...
✅ 198 tests passed, no failures! 👍 🎉

Building the development version

The master branch in hledger’s git repo is stable enough for daily use, and includes the latest improvements. You’ll need git and stack or cabal. This will build and install all of the main hledger tools using stack:

git clone https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger
cd hledger
stack install

cabal users may find the cabal-install.sh or cabal.project files useful.

The –version output of development builds has a .99 suffix meaning “dev”. So 1.14.99 means “1.15-dev”, the in-development version of 1.15.

Building the development version with docker

You can also build development version in the docker container, which will take care of pulling all the necessary tools and dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger
cd hledger/docker
./build.sh

This will build image tagged hledger with just the latest binaries inside.

If you want to keep all the build artifacts and use the resulting image for hledger development, use build-dev.sh instead.