Install Actual Budget - Open Source Finance Management - on Windows
11#ActualBudget #Accounting #Windows
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What is Actual Budget?
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Actual is a local-first personal finance tool. It is 100% free and open-source, written in NodeJS, it has a synchronization element so that all your changes can move between devices without any heavy lifting. - https://github.com/actualbudget/actual
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Installing Actual Budget
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01. Log into the Windows device
02. Download the latest Actual Budget release https://github.com/actualbudget/actual/releases/latest
03. Download NodeJS 16 https://nodejs.org/en/download/prebuilt-installer/
04. Download Git for Windows https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.46.2.windows.1
05. Download Microsoft Visual C++ https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe
06. Install Microsoft Visual C++
07. Install Git for Windows, accepting all the defaults
08. Install NodeJS, accepting all the defaults
09. Extract the downloaded Actual Budget files
10. Rename the extracted folder actualbudget
11. Cut the actualbudget folder to a location it can safely run from, C:\Apps\actualbudget in this example
12. Right click the Start button ≫ Settings ≫ System ≫ About
13. Click the Advanced system settings option
14. Click the Environment Variables...
15. Edit the System Path variable
16. Click the New button
17. Add the Git for Windows \bin directory (ie C:\Program Files\Git\bin)
18. Click OK to all open dialog windows
19. Click on the Start menu ≫ type cmd ≫ Right click on Command Prompt ≫ Run as administrator
20. Run the following commands in the Command Prompt window
change directory to actualbudget, C:\Apps\actualbudget in this example
cd C:\Apps\actualbudget
update npm
npm install -g npm
install yarn
npm install -g yarn
fix dependencies
yarn install
run actual
yarn start
21. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:3001
22. Click the Don't use a server link
23. Click Start Fresh
24. Welcome to Actual Budget
Source: https://actualbudget.org/docs/install/local/
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