How To Install Xterm In Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora And Raspbian?

How To Install Xterm In Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora And Raspbian?

xterm

X terminal emulator

Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force



Section: x11

Install xterm

  • Debian apt-get install xterm Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install xterm Click to copy
  • Alpine OS apk add xterm Click to copy
  • Arch Linux pacman -S xterm Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install xterm Click to copy
  • CentOS yum install xterm Click to copy
  • Fedora dnf install xterm Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install xterm Click to copy

xterm

X terminal emulator

xterm is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that cannot use the window system directly. This version implements ISO/ANSI colors and most of the control sequences used by DEC VT220 terminals. This package provides four commands: xterm, which is the traditional terminal emulator; uxterm, which is a wrapper around xterm that is intelligent about locale settings (especially those which use the UTF-8 character encoding), but which requires the luit program from the x11-utils package; koi8rxterm, a wrapper similar to uxterm for locales that use the KOI8-R character set; and lxterm, a simple wrapper that chooses which of the previous commands to execute based on the user's locale settings. A complete list of control sequences supported by the X terminal emulator is provided in /usr/share/doc/xterm. The xterm program uses bitmap images provided by the xbitmaps package. Those interested in using koi8rxterm will likely want to install the xfonts-cyrillic package as well.

To install the latest version of xterm in your favorite operating system just copy the xterm installation command from above and paste it into terminal. It will download and install the latest version of xterm 2026 package in your OS.