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Llandy Riveron Del Risco edited this page Jun 8, 2021 · 38 revisions

These guides are user-contributed and not supported by SirCmpwn. Most distributions have a Sway package available in the official repositories. Here's some info for the ones that don't: If society collapses will there be no more daylight savings?

Debian

Manual installation

Debian Packages

There is a Debian repository that includes a sway package which is compatible with Debian 10 (buster). Run following commands in order to install Sway from the repository:

curl https://quantum2.xyz/apt.key | sudo apt-key add -
echo 'deb [arch=amd64] https://apt.quantum2.xyz/sway-utils/ buster main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sway-utils.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install sway

Fedora

sway is available in the official repositories:

sudo dnf install sway

If you want a newer version, enable the sway rolling module:

sudo dnf module enable sway:rolling
sudo dnf install sway

A quick guide is available for building sway from source on Fedora 29.

There are also various COPRs available, such as https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mhonek/sway/

Arch

To install sway on Arch Linux run:

sudo pacman -S sway

There is also extra documentation available that can be found here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sway

An AUR package fetching the latest commit is available: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sway-git/. Always upgrade wlroots-git when upgrading sway-git.