It's strongly recommended to install Terminator using your OS's package system rather than using setup.py yourself. Packages are known to be available under the name "terminator" for the following Linux Distributions * Fedora * CentOS * Debian * Ubuntu * Arch Linux If you maintain terminator for an OS other than these, please get in touch or issue a PR to this file. If you don't have this option, please make sure you satisfy Terminator's dependencies yourself: * Python 3.5+ recommended: Debian/Ubuntu: python3 Fedora/CentOS: python3 FreeBSD: python37 * Python GTK and VTE bindings: Fedora/CentOS: python3-gobject python3-configobj python3-psutil vte291 keybinder3 intltool gettext Debian/Ubuntu: python3-gi python3-psutil python3-configobj gir1.2-keybinder-3.0 gettext intltool FreeBSD: py37-psutil py37-configobj keybinder-gtk3 py37-gobject3 gettext intltool If you don't care about native language support or icons, Terminator should run just fine directly from this directory, just: ./terminator --help And go from there. Manpages are available in the 'doc' directory. To install properly, run: ./setup.py install --record=install-files.txt See --help for an overview of the available options; e.g. --prefix to install to a custom base directory, and --without-gettext to avoid installing natural language support files. setup.py supports basic uninstallation provided --record was used for installation as above: ./setup.py uninstall --manifest=install-files.txt Note that uninstall will avoid removing most empty directories so it won't harm e.g. locale or icon directories which only contain Terminator data. It also won't rebuild the icon cache, so you may wish to: gtk-update-icon-cache -q -f ${PREFIX}/share/icons/hicolor Where ${PREFIX} is the base install directory; e.g. /usr/local.