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Installation

Vaishnav Sabari Girish edited this page Jun 13, 2026 · 3 revisions

Installation

ComChan can be installed in many ways

crates.io (Recommended)

# Standard installation (CPU Braille Engine)
cargo install comchan

# Installation with Hardware-Accelerated 3D support (Ratty Terminal)
cargo install comchan --features ratty

AUR

Thanks to orhun, comchan is now available in the AUR

There are 2 targets in the AUR for comchan

Without 3D support

# Using yay
yay -S comchan

# Using paru
paru -S comchan

With 3D support

# Using yay 
yay -S comchan-ratty

# Using paru 
paru -S comchan-ratty

Using elda

comchan (Without 3D support for now) can also be installed via elda as follows

elda i https://github.com/Vaishnav-Sabari-Girish/ComChan

From Source

For the latest development version

git clone https://github.com/Vaishnav-Sabari-Girish/ComChan.git
cd ComChan

# Build and install  (No 3D)
cargo install --path .

# Build and Install (With 3D)
cargo install --path . --features ratty

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