How To Install alacritty on Fedora 36

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alacritty on Fedora 36.

What is alacritty

Fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

We can use yum or dnf to install alacritty on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install alacritty.

Install alacritty on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install alacritty using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install alacritty

Install alacritty on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install alacritty using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install alacritty

How To Uninstall alacritty on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the alacritty package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove alacritty

alacritty Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/alacritty
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/00
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/6b0703651c458d48c66ed7ba95d344b3dcdb04
/usr/share/alacritty
/usr/share/alacritty/alacritty.yml
/usr/share/applications/Alacritty.desktop
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/alacritty
/usr/share/doc/alacritty
/usr/share/doc/alacritty/README.md
/usr/share/fish
/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d
/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/alacritty.fish
/usr/share/licenses/alacritty
/usr/share/licenses/alacritty/LICENSE-APACHE
/usr/share/man/man1/alacritty-msg.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/alacritty.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/Alacritty.svg
/usr/share/zsh
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_alacritty

References

• alacritty website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install alacritty on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).