1. Install Alacritty Ubuntu 20.04
2. Install Alacritty Arch

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Install Alacritty Ubuntu 20.04

This simple tutorial shows how to install the fastest terminal emulator, Alacritty, in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10, Linux Mint 20 via PPA.

Installation Alacritty can be installed by using various package managers on Linux, BSD, macOS and Windows. Prebuilt binaries for macOS and Windows can also be downloaded from the GitHub releases page. For everyone else, the detailed instructions to install Alacritty can be found here. This simple tutorial shows how to install the fastest terminal emulator, Alacritty, in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10, Linux Mint 20 via PPA. Alacritty is a cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator works on macOS, Linux, BSD, and Windows. Alacritty can be installed using package managers on Linux, BSD, macOS and Windows. To install Alacritty on Linux, run the following commands depending on your distribution. Note that some distributions already include Alacritty binaries in their repository. If not you can run the below commands to install.

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. And it features Vi mode, search, Vi search etc.

To install the software, there’s a PPA repository contains the latest packages for Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 20.10. Also an old version is available for Ubuntu 18.04.

1. Open terminal from your system application launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:

Type user password (no asterisk feedback) for sudo prompts and hit Enter to continue.

2. While adding the PPA will also automatically refresh system package cache, run apt command to install the terminal emulator:

Once installed, either open it either from system application launcher or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard.

Uninstall Alacritty:

To remove the terminal emulator, run command:

To remove the Ubuntu PPA, either run command in terminal:

or open Software & Updates and remove the repository line under Other Software tab.

If you use Ubuntu based GNU/Linux and wish to install the elegant and very fast GPU-accelerated Alacritty terminal emulator, you may have noticed that the official repositories do not have it. To get it directly from the developer repositories on Github, you must install Rust, then download and compile Alacritty source code. If you do not mind the extra time and effort, that is the best way keep Alacritty current on your system. In my case, I wanted a simpler way to install precompiled binaries, almost as fresh as the Github source, but without installing Rust on my system.

It turns out that Ubuntu users may get Alacritty from two different Personal Package Archives (PPAs); one updating very often, and another updating at a lower rate. First, there is the PPA run by Michael Aaron Murphy. His PPA has been up for a long time, and it carries the more stable releases. As of this writing, it contains Alacritty version 0.6.0, last updated December 29, 2020. Use the following commands in a terminal to add it to your software sources:

The more frequently updated PPA, therefore with possibly less stable versions, is operated by Antoine Latter. It lists as an 'Ubuntu' ppa, but the only software in it is Alacritty, and the latest version today is Alacritty 0.7.1, updated February 5, 2021. To install from this PPA, use the commands below:

The default configurations for Alacritty (colors, font, etc.) are good. I did adjust things slightly for my own preferences, changing the font style and size, going to a darker color scheme, setting transparency, and cursor blinking. It is all tweakable in a yaml file.

If you ever want to completely remove Alacritty from your computer, use the purge command:

If you ever want to remove access to a PPA, simply install the Package 'ppa-purge':

Then use one of the commands below to purge the PPA, as apropriate for the source you intend to not use:

I am quite pleased with the responsiveness of my terminal since switching to Alacritty, and hope the tips given above will help you install and enjoy it as developers continue to make it better.

Install Alacritty Arch