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Update Or Remove Alacritty

Marco

11/19/22, 7:13 AM

I built Alacritty by following the instructions from Alacritty Github and I don't know how to update it.

So, I thought if I install Alacritty with this code ↧, It will be easy to update it.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:aslatter/ppa
sudo apt install alacritty

Can anyone help me to remove it, or guide me on how to update it?

Thank you

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uninstall

Ray

11/19/22, 7:21 AM

Will `sudo apt purge alacritty` remove the software for you? If you install something from GitHub, then "updating" it is probably similar to re-installing it using the installation instructions. With an ppa repository, updating might be a bit easier, but it depends on whether the developer updates it regularly.

Marco

11/19/22, 3:43 PM

Thank you for your help, I didn't try `sudo apt purge alacritty` yet. the developer [PPA: antoine latter](https://launchpad.net/~aslatter/+archive/ubuntu/ppa) updates it regularly. I'm new so I don't know if it's safe to install it from him or it's safer to build it myself.

Ray

11/20/22, 4:05 AM

I'm glad someone else has already helped you! To answer your question, the Alacritty Github is the source of the software. Others with a PPA may want to re-package it to make it easier for others to install. Or, it can become an official Ubuntu package. The absolute "safest" is GitHub since that's the software source. (If you don't trust the developer, then don't bother even using it.) Everyone else is in the middle, even me if I told you, "yes! You can trust them!". How can you trust me to give you advice about a PPA? Trust comes with time and the "feeling" is unrelated to software.

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vanadium

11/19/22, 11:30 AM

In principle, you should know the details of your installation procedure in order to be able to fully undo the installation. In as far as I see, everything from the compilation is under a target/release/alacritty somewhere. From there, you manually moved things out to /usr/local/bin and other places, as indicated under Desktop Entry. Just undo these actions.

Remove /usr/local/bin/alacritty. Already from now on, the new version will be the one that you launch with the command alacritty
Remove /usr/share/pixmaps/Alacritty.svg
With respect to Alacritty.desktop, be carefull. It is most likely in /usr/share/applications when it is installed using desktop-file-install. It could have been overwritten by your PPA install, although some PPA's package the desktop file as com.alacritty.Alacritty.desktop. If the latter file exists in /usr/share/applications, then you can remove Alacritty.desktop. IF that file is not there, it may be elsewhere on your system. If needed, search where it is. You can then do a sudo update-desktop-database to update the system that that launcher is gone.
Finally, remove the folder where the compiled files were placed if you did not already.

Some background: When you installed Alacritty from the PPA, the binary will be located in /usr/bin. However, the version that you have compiled manually is, if you followed all instructions, in /usr/local/bin. The latter folder comes earlier in the search path for applications (look at that path with the command echo $PATH). So despite installing the PPA version, the manually compiled version continues to be the one that is executed.

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Marco

11/19/22, 3:30 PM

Thank you for your help. [target/release/alacritty] is on [~/alacritty/target/release/alacritty]. should I delete this folder [~/alacritty]? I don't know where the compiled files are. are they in the [~/alacritty] folder? [Alacritty.desktop] is in [/usr/share/applications] like you said. I didn't install The PPA yet. If I want to update it by rebuilding it. will the new rebuild replace the old one? or I will get two versions of it. Thank you again.

vanadium

11/19/22, 4:43 PM

I do not know more about the compilation process than what you pointed me to and followed. I guess also the compiled files are under your ~/alacritty folder. Rather than building yourself, you may prefer to se the PPA.

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evolozzy

5/13/23, 8:45 PM

I believe the updating alacritty from the source code would be more advisable at any point compared to installing from apt repos. I have suffered crashing at certain instances while using apt after upgrading my system.

To update it, I believe the best way to do it is, updating the repository to its latest.

git pull

Make sure whether you have the latest rust compiler.

rustup override set stable
rustup update stable

Then use to build it

cargo build --release

After building, I use symbolic links instead of copying the file, so when I update I don't need to copy file again and again. The system will use the same file at same location.

ln -s /Fullpath/to/alacritty/target/release/alacritty /directory/in/"$PATH"/alacritty

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I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Update Or Remove Alacritty

TH: อัปเดตหรือลบ Alacritty

RO: Actualizați sau eliminați Alacritty

RU: Обновите или удалите Alacritty

VI: Cập nhật hoặc xóa Alacritty

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