Installation

With Cargo

You need Rust 1.95 or newer.

cargo install --locked --git https://github.com/HilthonTT/strata strata

On Linux and macOS, SFTP support also needs the OpenSSL headers (libssl-dev on Debian and Ubuntu, openssl-devel on Fedora, openssl from Homebrew on macOS).

From source

git clone https://github.com/HilthonTT/strata
cd strata
make install     # builds a release binary into ~/.local/bin, and the man page

Run make help to see the other tasks (make check runs everything CI runs).

Man page

make install puts the man page in ~/.local/share/man/man1/. Otherwise strata prints it: strata --man > ~/.local/share/man/man1/strata.1, then man strata. It lists every option, key, palette command, file and environment variable.

Prebuilt binaries

Every tagged release has binaries for Linux (x86_64 and ARM64), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Windows on the releases page, with SHA-256 checksums.

Package managers (coming soon)

These arrive with the first tagged release; they are not published yet.

Source	Command
Homebrew	`brew install --build-from-source ./packaging/homebrew/strata.rb` from a checkout, until a tap exists
Arch Linux (AUR)	`makepkg -si` in `packaging/aur/`
Nix	`nix run github:HilthonTT/strata`, or `nix develop` for a development shell
crates.io	`cargo install strata` (the crate name may change if it is taken)

Recommended extras

Tool	Why
A Nerd Font	File and UI icons. Without one, set `icons = false`.
ripgrep	Faster content search (strata falls back to `grep`).
`git`	Status markers in the panels.
rclone	S3, WebDAV, FTP and rclone connections.
`pdftoppm` (poppler-utils), `ffmpeg`	PDF and video previews.
`udisks2` (Linux)	Mounting and ejecting removable drives.
zoxide	Optional: the `zoxide` plugin feeds your shell's zoxide. strata's own `g j` / `:z` jump list needs nothing.
`docker`	The Docker view.
A terminal with kitty, sixel or iTerm2 graphics	Full-resolution image previews.

Image previews use real graphics in kitty, WezTerm, Ghostty, iTerm2, Konsole, foot and Windows Terminal. Other terminals — and tmux — get a half-block approximation.

Next: the quick start.