terminator/INSTALL.md

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Installing Terminator

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" under a lot of distributions, see below for a list.

Source Install

If you can't use distribution packages, make sure you satisfy Terminator's dependencies yourself:

Python 3.5+ recommended: python3 or python37 (in FreeBSD)

Python GTK and VTE bindings:

 Fedora/CentOS: python3-gobject python3-configobj python3-psutil vte291 
                keybinder3 intltool gettext
 Debian/Ubuntu: python3-gi python3-gi-cairo python3-psutil python3-configobj 
                gir1.2-keybinder-3.0 gir1.2-vte-2.91 gettext intltool dbus-x11 
 FreeBSD:       py37-psutil py37-configobj keybinder-gtk3 py37-gobject3 gettext 
                intltool libnotify vte3

If you don't care about native language support or icons, Terminator should run just fine directly from this directory, just:

python3 terminator --help

And go from there. Manpages are available in the 'doc' directory.

Note: Currently most distributions use python3 as binaries for Python 3, make sure to update either the shebangs, call the scripts with python3 or use a wrapper script.

Setuptools install will update the scripts with the correct shebang.

To install properly, run:

python3 setup.py build
python3 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:

python3 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.

Distributions

Packaging status

If you maintain terminator for an OS other than these, please get in touch or issue a PR to this file.

Distribution Contact Package Info Source Code Bug Tracker
ArchLinux @grazzolini archlinux.org git.archlinux.org bugs.archlinux.org
CentOS EPEL @mattrose, @dmaphy src.fedoraproject.org/branches
Debian @lazyfrosch tracker.debian.org salsa.debian.org bugs.debian.org
Fedora @mattrose, @dmaphy src.fedoraproject.org bugzilla.redhat.com
FreeBSD freshports.org svnweb.freebsd.org bugs.freebsd.org
Gentoo @DarthGandalf packages.gentoo.org gitweb.gentoo.org bugs.gentoo.org
OpenSUSE build.opensuse.org
Ubuntu copied from Debian launchpad.net/ubuntu bugs.launchpad.net

A more extensive list can be found on Repology:

Packaging status