Download
There are various ways to download Zeal, depending on which operating system you use, and whether you want to use pre-compiled binary, or build it yourself from the source code.
Official binaries and source archives are available from GitHub Releases.
Windows
Installer (MSI)
Use this installer to conveniently install Zeal as any other app.
Portable
This is a special build intended for use without installation. All settings and docsets are stored in the application directory.
Chocolatey
Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows.
To install Zeal run:
> choco install zeal
Alternatively you can install the portable version:
> choco install zeal.portable
Scoop
Scoop is a command-line installer for Windows.
First you need to enable extras bucket, if that was not done before:
> scoop bucket add extras
To install Zeal run the following command:
> scoop install zeal
Scoop can also install Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable:
> scoop install vcredist2015
CI builds
In addition to the stable builds continious integration system automatically publishes prebuilt artifacts on each push to the main repository.
These builds can be useful for testing unreleased changes, but are not intended for daily use, and are likely to crash more often than stable releases.
To download a build artifact in the CI build history choose a change you want to test, then pick a build job corresponding the target platform, and finally download archive from the Artifacts tab.
Linux
Prebuilt packages are provided for variety of Linux distributions.
Some of the packages are maintained by Zeal developers, while others are courtesy of independent contributors.
In case your favourite distribution is missing from the list, please, open an issue ticket in our
zeal-packaging repository.
Distribution Independent
ALT Linux
Install Zeal from the official repositories:
# apt-get install zealView ALT Linux packages
Arch Linux
Arch Linux users can install zeal from AUR
Or use the zeal-git AUR package which builds unstable source code from our Git repository.
Debian
Install Zeal from the official repositories:
$ sudo apt-get install zealView Debian packages
Fedora
Install Zeal from the official Fedora software repositories.
$ sudo dnf install zealView Fedora package
Gentoo
Install the official Zeal package for Gentoo:
# emerge app-doc/zealView Gentoo package
openSUSE
Zeal is part of the official openSUSE software repositories.
View openSUSE packageSlackware
A SlackBuild script is available for users of Slackware.
View SlackBuilds.orgUbuntu
Install Zeal from the official repositories:
$ sudo apt-get install zeal
When the official package becomes outdated, our own PPA repository provides an up-to-date version. Run the following commands to use the PPA:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zeal-developers/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install zeal
Attention non-Unity users!
Due to a bug in
appmenu-qt5 package, Zeal main menu might be missing on desktop environments other than Unity.
A simple solution is to remove appmenu-qt5 package from your system.
BSD
FreeBSD
Install Zeal from ports:
# cd /usr/ports/devel/zeal/ && make install clean
Or install Zeal binary package:
# pkg install zealView FreeBSD Ports View FreshPorts
OpenBSD
Install Zeal with:
# pkg_add zealView OpenBSD Ports
Source code
Complete source code is available on GitHub. To build Zeal follow instruction in the README.md file.