# beancount-language-server mit Homebrew, apk, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für beancount-language-server in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:beancount-language-server
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install beancount-language-server
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add beancount-language-server
```

  Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: beancount-language-server from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#beancount-language-server
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/be/beancount-language-server/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:beancount-language-server
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/beancount-language-server>
- **Version:** 1.9.2
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Language server for beancount files
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/polarmutex/beancount-language-server>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/polarmutex/beancount-language-server>
- **Upstream-Dokumentation:** <https://github.com/polarmutex/beancount-language-server#readme>
- **Lizenz:** MIT
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://github.com/polarmutex/beancount-language-server/archive/refs/tags/1.9.2.tar.gz>
- **Generiert:** 2026-07-25T07:20:51+00:00

## Executables

- beancount-language-server (cli)
- beancount-language-server (Alias)

## Build-Abhängigkeiten

- rust

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-07-25
- Manager-Version: 1.9.2
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/polarmutex/beancount-language-server
- neueste erkannte Version: 1.9.2 (aktuell)
- Info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

beancount-language-server is a Language Server Protocol implementation for Beancount plain-text accounting files. It brings editor features such as completions, diagnostics, formatting, rename, references, semantic highlighting, and inlay hints to a niche but technically demanding personal-finance workflow.

### Projektgeschichte

The public repository was created on 2020-05-19. Its README frames the project as an LSP for Beancount and documents a Rust/Cargo distribution model with optional Python/Beancount integration for validation.

The 2026 release feed shows active 1.x development, including 1.5.0 through 1.9.2 releases in January and February 2026. The README documents a default PyO3 embedded checker, fallbacks to system Python and bean-check, and performance comparisons intended to make diagnostics fast enough for editor feedback.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Adoption is concentrated in the Beancount and plain-text accounting community. The batch package facts show Homebrew, Alpine, and Nix packages, while the README documents Cargo install, GitHub release binaries, Homebrew, Nix, and source builds.

Repository metadata showed 238 stars and 34 forks on 2026-06-30, which is modest in absolute terms but meaningful for an editor integration aimed at Beancount users rather than a general-purpose language.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users install the server and configure an editor LSP client to launch beancount-language-server. The server can validate files using embedded Python, system Python, or bean-check, and it supports optional workspace settings such as journal_file for multi-file ledgers and formatting widths aligned with bean-format behavior.

The README emphasizes that all configuration is optional for simple cases: the server auto-detects the best checker method, uses project-local virtual environments when present, and can scope completions to a configured main journal for multi-ledger workspaces.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

This package is notable because it packages editor intelligence for a data format, not a programming language. It shows how LSP escaped compilers and IDEs and became a general protocol for structured text domains such as accounting ledgers.

For package maintainers, it is also interesting because it bridges Rust binaries, Python ABI compatibility, the Beancount Python package, prebuilt cross-platform release artifacts, Homebrew, Nix, Alpine, and Cargo.

### Zeitleiste

- 2020-05-19: polarmutex/beancount-language-server repository is created.
- 2025-01-26: Release metadata includes version 1.3.7.
- 2025-07-21: Release metadata includes version 1.4.1.
- 2026-01-04: 1.5.0 is published.
- 2026-02-12: 1.9.2 is published.

### Related projects

- Beancount is the ledger language and Python package validated by the server.
- Language Server Protocol is the editor protocol implemented by the package.
- bean-check and bean-format are Beancount tools mirrored in the language server's diagnostics and formatting behavior.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/polarmutex/beancount-language-server>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/polarmutex/beancount-language-server/releases>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/polarmutex/beancount-language-server/main/README.md>


## Sicherheitshinweise

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** blue / mittel
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** beancount-language-server
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - beancount-language-server: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/be/beancount-language-server/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- apk - beancount-language-server - 1.4.1-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: beancount-language-server from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Language server for Beancount files | https://github.com/polarmutex/beancount-language-server


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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/beancount-language-server.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/beancount-language-server.yml)


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