# Installer fava avec Homebrew, apk, MacPorts, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de fava pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:fava
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install fava
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install fava
```

  Preuve: MacPorts ports tree: python/fava/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add fava
```

  Preuve: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: fava from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#fava
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/fa/fava/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:fava
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.30.14
- **Résumé source:** Web interface for the double-entry bookkeeping software Beancount
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://beancount.github.io/fava/>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/beancount/fava>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-06-17T21:36:00Z
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- fava (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 1.30.14
## Historique du projet et usages

Fava is the web interface for Beancount, the plain-text double-entry accounting system. It turns a Beancount ledger into a local browser application for reports, charts, journals, editing, import workflows, documents, query results, and account navigation.

### Historique du projet

The Fava changelog records the first commit on December 4, 2015, and says early versions could not be installed using only `pip`. Version 0.2.3, released in February 2016, marked the point where `pip install` worked with all requirements included.

Fava reached version 1.0 in October 2016 with a major UI and architecture refresh: improved layout and fonts, better small-screen behavior, asynchronous page loading, and configuration moved into custom entries in the Beancount file rather than a separate Fava config file.

After 1.0, Fava evolved from a reporting UI into a broader personal-finance workbench. Releases added document uploads, transaction entry, translations, a Beancount import interface, entry editing, richer filtering, charts, query visualization, extension points, editor improvements, and frontend-rendered report pages.

Recent releases show Fava tracking both Python/web frontend changes and Beancount compatibility. Version 1.25 moved the editor to a tree-sitter grammar and introduced a Flask application factory; version 1.30 added Beancount 3 support and upgraded the frontend to Svelte 5.

### Historique d'adoption

Fava's adoption is tied to Beancount's plain-text accounting community: it became the default graphical companion for users who keep the ledger as text but want searchable, charted, browser-based views. The official README points users to an online demo, the website, `pip3 install fava`, and the `fava ledger.beancount` workflow.

Packaging followed the same practical path as other Python CLI apps. In this batch input Fava appears in Alpine, Homebrew, MacPorts, and Nix package metadata, which matches its role as a local developer-style tool rather than a hosted SaaS service.

### Modes d'utilisation

The common usage path is deliberately small: install Fava, run `fava ledger.beancount`, and open the local web interface at `http://localhost:5000`. Users already familiar with Beancount can use Fava as a viewer and editor over their existing ledger file.

Fava stores project options in the Beancount file via custom entries, so Homebrew-style installation does not imply a global Fava configuration file. That design matters for package metadata: the executable is packaged, but the user's accounting state and Fava options live with the ledger.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

Fava is a good example of a package-manager friendly personal web app: a CLI command launches a local Flask/Svelte interface over plain text data, without asking the package manager to install a daemon, database, or desktop application.

It also matters because it gives Beancount users a maintained alternative to command-line-only reporting and older web views, while preserving the text-ledger workflow that makes Beancount attractive to developers and accountants who want version-controlled finances.

### Chronologie

- 2015: First Fava commit recorded on December 4.
- 2016: Version 0.2.3 makes `pip install` work with requirements included.
- 2016: Version 1.0 ships a major UI refresh and moves configuration into Beancount entries.
- 2017: Version 1.4 adds an interface for Beancount's import system.
- 2018: Version 1.8 ends separate GUI releases because of maintenance burden.
- 2023: Version 1.25 adopts tree-sitter for editor parsing and a Flask application factory.
- 2024: Version 1.30 adds Beancount 3 support and upgrades the frontend to Svelte 5.

### Related projects

- Beancount is Fava's underlying accounting system and data format.
- The changelog references older Beancount web/reporting expectations such as missing Holdings views compared with `bean-web`, and later Beancount-adjacent tools such as beanquery and beangulp.

### Sources

- <https://beancount.github.io/fava>
- <https://beancount.github.io/fava/usage.html>
- <https://github.com/beancount/fava>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/beancount/fava/main/README.rst>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/beancount/fava/main/CHANGES>


## Notes de sécurité

Aucun manifest local de gestion des secrets correspondant n'a été trouvé pour fava. Les métadonnées de paquet Nucleus restent publiées ici afin que la couverture future dispose d'une URL stable.


## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - fava: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/fa/fava/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- apk - fava - 1.28-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: fava from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Web interface for Beancount | https://beancount.github.io/fava/
- apk - fava-pyc - 1.28-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: fava-pyc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Precompiled Python bytecode for fava | https://beancount.github.io/fava/
- MacPorts - fava: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: python/fava/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/fava.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/fava.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph