How to Install Akaunting on macOS

Introduction

Akaunting is an open-source accounting software that is free to use. It is designed to help small businesses and freelancers manage their finances efficiently. In this tutorial, we'll go through the process of installing Akaunting on your macOS machine.

Prerequisites

Before we start, ensure that you have:

• An active internet connection
• A macOS machine
• Administrator privileges on the machine

Step 1: Install Homebrew

Homebrew is a package manager for macOS that makes it easy to install Unix tools, libraries, and other software. Here's how to install it:

1. Open the Terminal application.
2. Run the following command:

$ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"

3. Wait for the installation to complete.

Step 2: Install PHP and Composer

Akaunting is built with PHP, so we need to install it along with Composer, which is a dependency manager for PHP.

1. Open the Terminal application.
2. Run the following command to install PHP:

$ brew install php

3. Run the following command to install Composer:

$ brew install composer

Step 3: Install Akaunting

1. Open the Terminal application.
2. Run the following command to download Akaunting:

$ composer create-project akaunting/akaunting akaunting

3. Wait for the installation to complete.
4. Change to the Akaunting directory:

$ cd akaunting

5. Copy the .env.example file and rename it to .env:

$ cp .env.example .env

6. Generate a unique key for the application:

$ php artisan key:generate

7. Start the server:

$ php artisan serve

8. You should see a message that says Laravel development server started: <http://127.0.0.1:8000>. This means that Akaunting is now running on your machine.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we went through the process of installing Akaunting on your macOS machine. Now all you need to do is open your web browser and navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8000 to start using the application.

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