How To Install kitty on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install kitty on CentOS 8. kitty is Cross-platform, fast, feature full, GPU based terminal emulator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kitty on CentOS 8.

What is kitty

  • Offloads rendering to the GPU for lower system load and buttery smooth scrolling. Uses threaded rendering to minimize input latency. - Supports all modern terminal features OpenType ligatures, mouse protocol, focus tracking, bracketed paste and several new terminal protocol extensions. - Supports tiling multiple terminal windows side by side in different layouts without needing to use an extra program like tmux. - Can be controlled from scripts or the shell prompt, even over SSH. - Has a framework for Kittens, small terminal programs that can be used to extend kitty’s functionality. For example, they are used for Unicode input, Hints and Side-by-side diff. - Supports startup sessions which allow you to specify the window/tab layout, working directories and programs to run on startup. - Cross-platform OpenGL for rendering, it should be trivial to port to other Unix-like platforms. - Allows you to open the scrollback buffer in a separate window using arbitrary programs of your choice. This is useful for browsing the history comfortably in a pager or editor. - Has multiple copy/paste buffers, like vim.

We can use yum or dnf to install kitty on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kitty.

Install kitty on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install kitty

Install kitty on CentOS 8 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install kitty

How To Uninstall kitty on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove kitty

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kitty on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.