# Installation

You can download an executable for your system: Linux (glibc) | Linux (musl) | MacOS | Windows | All

Alternatively you can install delta using a package manager: see repology.org/git-delta.

Note that the package is often called `git-delta`, but the executable installed is called `delta`. Here is a quick summary for selected package managers:

Arch Linux | `pacman -S git-delta`
Cargo | `cargo install git-delta`
Fedora | `dnf install git-delta`
FreeBSD | `pkg install git-delta`
Gentoo | `emerge dev-util/git-delta`
Homebrew | `brew install git-delta`
MacPorts | `port install git-delta`
Nix | `nix-env -iA nixpkgs.delta`
OpenBSD | `pkg_add delta`
openSUSE | `zypper install git-delta`
Void Linux | `xbps-install -S delta`
Windows (Chocolatey) | `choco install delta`
Windows (Scoop) | `scoop install delta`
Windows (Winget) | `winget install dandavison.delta`
Debian / Ubuntu | `dpkg -i file.deb` .deb files are on the releases page. If you are using Ubuntu <= 19.10 or are mixing apt sources, please read #504.
conda | `conda install git-delta -c conda-forge` `mamba install git-delta -c conda-forge`

Users of older MacOS versions (e.g. 10.11 El Capitan) should install using Homebrew, Cargo, or MacPorts: the binaries on the release page will not work.

Behind the scenes, delta uses `less` for paging. It's important to have a reasonably recent version of less installed. On MacOS, install `less` from Homebrew. For Windows, see Using Delta on Windows.