👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

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Ghostty is built using Zig, a powerful systems programming language. Check out my Debian package for Zig above.

This repository contains build scripts to produce the unofficial Debian packages (.deb) for Ghostty hosted at debian.griffo.io

Currently supported debian distros are:

• Bookworm
• Trixie
• Sid

This is an unofficial community project to provide a package that's easy to install on Debian. If you're looking for the Ghostty source code, see ghostty-org/ghostty.

# 1. Download and store the repository signing key (dearmored)
sudo curl -fsSL https://debian.griffo.io/EA0F721D231FDD3A0A17B9AC7808B4DD62C41256.asc \
  | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/debian.griffo.io.gpg

# 2. Add the repository, referencing the keyring using 'signed-by'
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/debian.griffo.io.gpg] \
  https://debian.griffo.io/apt $(lsb_release -sc) main" \
  | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.griffo.io.list

# 3. Update and install
sudo apt update
sudo apt install ghostty

1. Download the .deb package for your Debian version available on the Releases page.
2. Install the downloaded .deb package.

sudo dpkg -i <filename>.deb

To update to a new version, just follow any of the installation methods above. There's no need to uninstall the old version; it will be updated correctly.

I want to have an easy-to-install Ghostty package for Debian, so I'm doing what I can to make it happen. (Ghostty relies on the community to produce non-macOS packages.) I'm sure the scripts I have so far can be improved, so please open an issue or PR if you notice any problems!

If you want to test locally, you should be able to run build_ghostty_debian.sh on your own Debian system, only requirement is docker.

• Produce a .deb package on GitHub Releases
• Set up a debian mirror for easier updates

• This repo is not open for issues related to ghostty. This repo is only for unofficial Debian packaging.
• This repository is based on the amazing work of Mike Kasberg and his Ghostty Ubuntu packages