How To Install alacritty on Fedora 34

alacritty is Fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alacritty on Fedora 34.

What is alacritty

Fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

We can use yum or dnf to install alacritty on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install alacritty.

Install alacritty on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install alacritty

Install alacritty on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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 34

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

sudo dnf remove alacritty

alacritty Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/alacritty
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/72
/usr/lib/.build-id/72/89ec28b1474049e7e81b9dcc7403063908bc27
/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.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/Alacritty.svg
/usr/share/zsh
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_alacritty
/usr/bin/alacritty
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8/a1700c9da71be8a4439bf0eb4c673be993f072
/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.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/Alacritty.svg
/usr/share/zsh
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_alacritty

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install alacritty on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.