[request] Alacritty

[Anonymous]

Would it be possible for a Dev to build an alacritty package for the antiX repo,
alacritty run on rust I have rust installed and working as I use i3status-rust works fine, as do polybar and conkybar
The source installs with cargo the instructions on the git just don’t work with Debian.
alacritty git

Thanks

[Anonymous]

I have not used alacritty terminal emulator. What outstanding/unique features does it offer?

the instructions on the git just don’t work with Debian.

Maybe the instructions here are better:
http://www.tecmint.com/alacritty-fastest-terminal-emulator-for-linux/

Looking around, I could not find an appImage packaged version of alacritty.
I did find a *.deb on launchpad.net, packaged for Pop!_OS by “System76” team
http://launchpad.net/~system76/+archive/ubuntu/proposed/+packages
On that page, clicking ” alacritty – 0.5.0~1596299148~20.04~ac39dfd ”
expands the page to display links to a .tar.xz file (source pkg to DIY build the deb package) and a .deb file

[Anonymous]

The build-depends list of required packages is stated within the debian/control file.
You can extract the content of the tar.xz into directory ~/workingdir/
and install the listed build-depends packages (plus the generic “build-essential” package)

cd ~/workingdir
dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc
cd ..

If the operation is successful, the newly-created .deb will be present as ~/pkgname_and_version.deb
and you can
sudo dpkg -i pkgname_and_version.deb

[Anonymous]

@ skidoo

Thanks very much for your time in helping with alacritty..

All build depends from control file have been installed..

Source: alacritty
Section: rust
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Michael Aaron Murphy <michael@system76.com>
Build-Depends:
 cargo (>=0.29),
 cmake,
 debhelper (>=9),
 help2man,
 libfreetype6-dev,
 libfontconfig1-dev,
 libxcb1-dev,
 libxcb-render0-dev,
 libxcb-shape0-dev,
 libxcb-xfixes0-dev,
 rustc (>=1.32),
 python3
Standards-Version: 4.1.4
Homepage: http://github.com/jwilm/alacritty

Package: alacritty
Architecture: any
Depends:
 ${misc:Depends},
 ${shlib:Depends}
Recommends: xclip
Description: GPU-accelerated terminal emulator
 GPU-accelerated terminal emulator, written in Rust

Extracted Dir file list

antix19 * 18 files = 14M ~/Downloads/alacritty-build-folder/ac39dfd03747be096c32073b39786c37972d2cdc_focal >$ls
alacritty  alacritty_terminal  alacritty.yml  Cargo.lock  Cargo.toml  CHANGELOG.md  ci	CONTRIBUTING.md  debian  docs  extra  INSTALL.md  LICENSE-APACHE  Makefile  README.md  rustfmt.toml  scripts  vendor.tar.xz

I have a 2 building errors = toolchain

antix19 * 46 files = 67M ~ >$Downloads/alacritty-build-folder/

cd -- Downloads/alacritty-build-folder/

antix19 * 1 files = 15M ~/Downloads/alacritty-build-folder >$tar -xf alacritty_0.5.0~1596299148~20.04~ac39dfd.tar.xz 

antix19 * 2 files = 15M ~/Downloads/alacritty-build-folder >$ac39dfd03747be096c32073b39786c37972d2cdc_focal/
cd -- ac39dfd03747be096c32073b39786c37972d2cdc_focal/

antix19 * 18 files = 14M ~/Downloads/alacritty-build-folder/ac39dfd03747be096c32073b39786c37972d2cdc_focal >$sudo dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package alacritty
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 0.5.0~1596299148~20.04~ac39dfd
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution focal
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Pop OS (ISO Signing Key) <info@system76.com>
dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
 dpkg-source --before-build .
 debian/rules clean
dh clean
   debian/rules override_dh_auto_clean
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/koo/Downloads/alacritty-build-folder/ac39dfd03747be096c32073b39786c37972d2cdc_focal'
cargo clean
error: no override and no default toolchain set
make[1]: *** [debian/rules:25: override_dh_auto_clean] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/koo/Downloads/alacritty-build-folder/ac39dfd03747be096c32073b39786c37972d2cdc_focal'
make: *** [debian/rules:22: clean] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules clean subprocess returned exit status 2
antix19 * 18 files = 14M ~/Downloads/alacritty-build-folder/ac39dfd03747be096c32073b39786c37972d2cdc_focal >$

[Anonymous]

error: no override and no default toolchain set

top results from a websearch of that error message:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/44303915/no-default-toolchain-configured-after-installing-rustup

http://users.rust-lang.org/t/cargo-returns-error-no-default-toolchain-configured/38793

http://profectium.blogspot.com/2017/10/rust-how-to-fix-no-default-toolchain.html

[Anonymous]

@ skidoo

I have tried everything I can fine, to fix the toolchain error to no avail..

So I ended up installing alacritty with cargo then manually add alacritty.man , bash completions , alacritty.desktop & svg , alacritty.info. (cargo install alacritty) v5.0
I also found that cargo made the /usr/bin/ alacritty shared library file, which it stored in ~/cargo/bin/ folder so all is good as far having an installed & working version is concerned.
Was nice to fine this command (sudo update-alternatives –config x-terminal-emulator) to set one’s default terminal..

I think their was something wrong with dependency versions or maybe rust & cargo versions. It was disappointing not to build my first .deb !!

Thanks again for all your help, you have made me more determined and less lazy..

[oopsMember]

Hello,
… Right, Alacritty is very fast (seen as the fastest of the terminal actually) , like kitty an other OpenGL 3 terminal too.

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