{"id":33097,"date":"2020-12-19T12:49:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T12:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=33097"},"modified":"2023-12-30T11:10:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T11:10:33","slug":"install-alacritty-ppa-ubuntu-20-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/12\/install-alacritty-ppa-ubuntu-20-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Alacritty Terminal Emulator via PPA in Ubuntu 20.04\/22.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This simple tutorial shows how to install the fastest terminal emulator, Alacritty, in Ubuntu 20.04, Linux Mint 20 via PPA. UPDATED: Ubuntu 22.04<\/b> & Linux Mint 21<\/b> also supported.<\/p>\n

Alacritty<\/a> is a cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator works on macOS, Linux, BSD, and Windows. It’s free and open-source software that strongly focus on simplicity and performance. And it features Vi mode, search, Vi search etc.<\/p>\n

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To install the software, there’s a PPA repository<\/a> contains the latest packages for Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.04. Also an old version is available for Ubuntu 18.04.<\/p>\n

1.<\/b> Open terminal<\/code> from your system application launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:aslatter\/ppa<\/pre>\n
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) for sudo prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n
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2.<\/b> While adding the PPA will also automatically refresh system package cache, run apt command to install the terminal emulator:<\/p>\n
sudo apt install alacritty<\/pre>\n
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Once installed, either open it either from system application launcher or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard.<\/p>\n
Uninstall Alacritty:<\/h3>\n
To remove the terminal emulator, run command:<\/p>\n
sudo apt remove --auto-remove alacritty<\/pre>\n
To remove the Ubuntu PPA, either run command in terminal:<\/p>\n
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:aslatter\/ppa<\/pre>\n
or open Software & Updates<\/i> and remove the repository line under Other Software<\/i> tab.<\/p>\n
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This simple tutorial shows how to install the fastest terminal emulator, Alacritty, in Ubuntu 20.04, Linux Mint 20 via PPA. UPDATED: Ubuntu 22.04 & Linux Mint 21 also supported. Alacritty is a cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator works on macOS, Linux, BSD, and Windows. It’s free and open-source software that strongly focus on simplicity and performance. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[883],"class_list":["post-33097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-terminal-emulator"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}