How To Install Alacritty on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

In this guide, we will show you how to install Alacritty in Ubuntu systems.

Alacritty is a free and open-sourceGPU-accelerated terminal emulator focused on performance and simplicity. Consequently, it does not support tabs or splits and is configured by editing a text file. It is written in Rust and uses OpenGL (for performance). A similar terminal emulator that uses OpenGL is Kitty.

Alacritty is a simple, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust. It supports scrollback, 24-bit colors (w:Color depth#True color (24-bit), copy/paste, clicking on URLs, and custom key bindings.

Install Alacritty on Ubuntu-APT method

Follow the steps below to get started with Alacritty :

• Update your Ubuntu system packages with running the below command:

sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y

• Alacritty package is not available on Ubuntu base repository. So You can install it via importing PPA repo as follows:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:aslatter/ppa -y

• Run the command below to reflect on PPA

sudo apt update -y

• Then install Alacritty as shown below:

sudo apt install alacritty -y

Access Alacritty

• You can search on the system search bar by typing Alacritty as follows

• Alacritty will be launched as shown below

How to Remove (Uninstall) Alacritty on Ubuntu

• Remove Alacritty APT Method

sudo apt autoremove alacritty --purge -y

Install Alacritty -Conclusion

That’s it

Thanks.