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authorDaniel M. Capella <polyzen@users.noreply.github.com>2017-01-14 20:43:29 +0000
committerJoe Wilm <jwilm@users.noreply.github.com>2017-01-29 20:29:22 -0800
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Add Arch Linux package install instructions
Includes minor touch ups.
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@@ -29,11 +29,20 @@ binaries will be provided for supported operating systems.
- [Announcing Alacritty, a GPU-Accelerated Terminal Emulator](http://blog.jwilm.io/announcing-alacritty/) January 6, 2017
- [A short talk about Alacritty at the Rust Meetup January 2017](https://air.mozilla.org/rust-meetup-january-2017/) (starts at 57:00)
-## Installation
+## Package Installation
-The only supported installation method at this time is from source. Proper
-installers will be added prior to the 1.0 release of Alacritty. This section
-will walk you through how to build from source on both macOS and Ubuntu.
+The only supported installation method at this time is from source. Proper installers will be added prior to the 1.0 release of Alacritty.
+
+### Arch Linux
+
+```sh
+git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/alacritty-git.git
+cd alacritty-git
+pacman -S rustup # needed until Rust 1.15 is available (see PR #131)
+makepkg -isr
+```
+
+## Manual Installation
### Prerequisites
@@ -42,7 +51,7 @@ will walk you through how to build from source on both macOS and Ubuntu.
2. Clone the source code:
```sh
- git clone https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty
+ git clone https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty.git
cd alacritty
```
@@ -75,7 +84,7 @@ On Arch Linux, you need a few extra libraries to build Alacritty. Here's a
to be missing, please open an issue.
```sh
-pacman -S cmake freetype2 fontconfig xclip
+pacman -S cmake freetype2 fontconfig pkg-config make xclip
```
#### Fedora
@@ -151,7 +160,7 @@ sudo cp target/release/alacritty /usr/local/bin # or anywhere else in $PATH
cp Alacritty.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
```
-### Configuration
+## Configuration
Although it's possible the default configuration would work on your system,
you'll probably end up wanting to customize it anyhow. There is a default