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:

<table> <tr> <td><a href="https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/git-delta/">Arch Linux</a></td> <td><code>pacman -S git-delta</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://crates.io/crates/git-delta">Cargo</a></td> <td><code>cargo install git-delta</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rust-git-delta">Fedora</a></td> <td><code>dnf install git-delta</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://pkgs.org/download/git-delta">FreeBSD</a></td> <td><code>pkg install git-delta</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/dev-util/git-delta">Gentoo</a></td> <td><code>emerge dev-util/git-delta</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/git-delta">Homebrew</a></td> <td><code>brew install git-delta</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://ports.macports.org/port/git-delta/summary">MacPorts</a></td> <td><code>port install git-delta</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://search.nixos.org/packages?show=delta&query=delta">Nix</a></td> <td><code>nix-env -iA nixpkgs.delta</code> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/ports/textproc/delta/">OpenBSD</a></td> <td><code>pkg_add delta</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://software.opensuse.org/package/git-delta">openSUSE</a></td> <td><code>zypper install git-delta</code> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/tree/master/srcpkgs/delta">Void Linux</a></td> <td><code>xbps-install -S delta</code> </tr> <tr> <td>Windows (<a href="https://chocolatey.org/packages/delta">Chocolatey</a>)</td> <td><code>choco install delta</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Windows (<a href="https://scoop.sh/">Scoop</a>)</td> <td><code>scoop install delta</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Windows (<a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/">Winget</a>)</td> <td><code>winget install dandavison.delta</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Debian / Ubuntu</td> <td> <code>dpkg -i file.deb</code>

  .deb files are on the <a href="https://github.com/dandavison/delta/releases">releases</a> page.
  

  <sup>If you are using Ubuntu <= 19.10 or are mixing apt sources, please read <a href="https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/504">#504</a>.</sup>
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</tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/git-delta">conda</a></td> <td> <code>conda install git-delta -c conda-forge</code>

  <code>mamba install git-delta -c conda-forge</code>
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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.

If you use bat and are running bat cache --build to install custom themes or language syntaxes then you should install the same version of bat as specified in the Cargo.toml for the delta release you're using, otherwise delta will crash with a memory error. The current version of delta does not work with bat v0.18.3 or prior versions.