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Kitty Terminal Build Script for a fresh Ubuntu 18.04
#!/bin/sh
# installs requirements and builds kitty from source
# on a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 install
#
# https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty
sudo apt install python3-dev git gcc build-essential pkg-config libharfbuzz-dev libpng-dev libfontconfig1-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libxkbcommon-x11-dev libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libxi-dev
cd /opt
sudo git clone https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty
cd /opt/kitty
sudo make
python3 .
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drfloob commented Jan 7, 2019

for those not on standard gnome desktop, this also needs sudo apt install libdbus1-dev

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andreagrax commented Oct 14, 2019

on xubuntu 18.04 sudo apt install libdbus-1-dev libcanberra-dev

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