Prebuilt Ghostty Binaries and Packages

The Ghostty project only officially provides prebuilt binaries for macOS. Other platforms may provide packages for Ghostty, but those packages are maintained by the community. This page will list both official and community-provided binary packages.

Note

At the time of writing, Ghostty has only recently been publicly released. As a result, the number of community-provided binary packages is zero. This page will be updated as community-provided packages become available.

Official macOS binaries are provided by the Ghostty project and are available on the download page.

These binaries are signed and notarized by the Ghostty project. To install, download the .dmg file, open it, and drag the Ghostty application to your Applications folder. This is the same process as installing many typical macOS applications.

Where is Homebrew? The Ghostty project does not maintain a Homebrew formula or tap. We rely on the community to provide alternate packaging methods similar to Linux. At the time of writing, Ghostty is too new for community-provided packages to be available. If and when they become available, this page will be updated.

Pre-built Linux binaries or packages are provided by the community. At the time of writing, no community-provided packages are available because Ghostty has only recently been publicly released. This page will be updated as community-provided packages become available.

If your platform isn't available, you must build Ghostty from source.

Tip

Interested in creating a package for your platform? Check out the packaging guide. If you need any help, feel free to make an issue. Once your package is ready, submit a pull request to add it to this page!

There is Nix package that can be used in the Ghostty flake (packages.ghostty or packages.default). This is a good way to track specific commits of Ghostty.

While the Ghostty project does not maintain any official packages for Linux, Ghostty maintains an in-repo Nix flake because Nix is used as our primary development and CI environment. The Ghostty project does not maintain any official NixOS packages (in nixpkgs).

Below is an example:

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";

    ghostty = {
      url = "github:ghostty-org/ghostty";
    };
  };

  outputs = { nixpkgs, ghostty, ... }: {
    nixosConfigurations.mysystem = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
      modules = [
        {
          environment.systemPackages = [
            ghostty.packages.x86_64-linux.default
          ];
        }
      ];
    };
  };
}