The Alacritty package provides a fast, cross-platform OpenGL terminal emulator.
fontconfig, freetype, libxcb, libxkbcommon, rustc, and Xorg Libraries
scdoc-1.11.4 (to build the man pages)
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
An Internet connection is needed for building this package. The system certificate store may need to be set up with make-ca before building this package.
Install Alacritty by running the following commands:
cargo build --release
To test the results, issue: cargo test --release.
If you installed scdoc and wish to build the man pages, execute the following commands:
for f in extra/man/*.scd; do
scdoc < $f > ${f%.*}
done
Now, as the root user:
install -vDm755 target/release/alacritty -t /usr/bin/ && install -vDm644 extra/linux/Alacritty.desktop -t /usr/share/applications/ && install -vDm644 extra/logo/alacritty-term.svg /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/Alacritty.svg
This package installs desktop files into the /usr/share/applications hierarchy. System
performance and memory usage may be improved by updating
/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache if you
have
desktop-file-utils installed. To perform the update, issue
the following command as the root
user:
update-desktop-database -q
To ensure Alacritty's terminfo is present, run the following
command as the root user:
tic -xe alacritty,alacritty-direct extra/alacritty.info
If you wish to install shell completions, execute the relevant
commands for your shell(s) as the root user:
install -vDm644 extra/completions/alacritty.bash /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/alacritty install -vDm644 extra/completions/_alacritty -t /usr/share/zsh/site-functions/ install -vDm644 extra/completions/alacritty.fish -t /usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/
If you built the man pages, install them as the root user:
install -vDm644 extra/man/*.1 -t /usr/share/man/man1/ && install -vDm644 extra/man/*.5 -t /usr/share/man/man5/
If you wish to install the documentation, execute the following as
the root user:
install -vDm644 README.md docs/* -t /usr/share/doc/alacritty-0.16.1/
cargo build --no-default-features --features=x11: This command builds Alacritty without wayland support.
cargo build --no-default-features --features=wayland: This command builds Alacritty without X11 support.
~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml.
If you wish to configure Alacritty, manually create this file;
otherwise, a default configuration will be used. For
configuration options, see alacritty(5),
or if you built the man pages, run man 5 alacritty.