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Alacritty Installation | Installation Instruction

Mark Lucernas
2020-08-29

Alacritty Installation

Linux

Ubuntu

20.04 Focal Fossa

# Dependencies
sudo apt install cmake pkg-config libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig1-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev python3

git clone https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
cd alacritty
cargo build --release

# Clean up
cd .. && rm -r alacritty

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WSL/WSL2

Using choco PowerShell package manager

choco install alacritty

To set WSL terminal as default, go to %APPDATA%\alacritty\alacritty.yml and add the following lines

shell:
  program: "C:\\Windows\\System32\\wsl.exe"

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