How to install exa on ubuntu?

dryheat · 05-17-2021, 09:28 AM

Hi. I saw this article about exa, an alternative file-lister to ls. Looks interesting and I want to give it a try. Unfortunately apt can't find it.

So I downloaded the binary, unzipped, and following the instructions in the article I moved the contents to /usr/local/bin/exa. But the OS can't find it. Even if I navigate to the ../bin folder and try to issue exa or ./exa, it won't run. What to do?

shruggy · 05-17-2021, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by dryheat

What to do?

Code:

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/exa

BTW, exa is available in Debian unstable and in Ubuntu starting with 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla). I guess it should be easy to backport it from Groovy to Focal (all you need is to lower the versions of some crates in debian/control and adjust debian/patches/* accordingly). Not sure about Ubuntu 18.04 though: the versions of Rust and required Rust crates may be too old there.

Update. I built a DEB package for Ubuntu 20.04 and uploaded it here.

dryheat · 05-18-2021, 01:10 PM

Still said not found after chmod, so I deleted it and used your package. Worked great! Thanks.

shruggy · 05-18-2021, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by dryheat

Still said not found after chmod

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Originally Posted by dryheat

following the instructions in the article I moved the contents to /usr/local/bin/exa.

Did you move all the contents there? Then this is wrong. You should have moved only the binary.

Code:

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/exa
sudo unzip exa-linux-x86_64-v0.10.0.zip -d /usr/local bin/exa