How to Install Zed Code Editor on Ubuntu Linux

Zed is a free and open source code editor for Linux and MacOS. It is a written in Rust and released under GPL license. It is fast GPU accelerated, multiplayer text editor from the creators of Atom text editor. It comes with vim mode, integrated terminal, themes support, real-time collaboration tools, syntax highlighting, searchable outline view, GitHub Copilot support and many more.

Install Zed on Ubuntu

Open the terminal application (ctrl+alt+t) and run below Zed code editor install script. It will install the latest version of Zed text editor on your system.

curl https://zed.dev/install.sh | sh

After the successful installation you can open it using below command.

zed