`bat` is making its way through the [Ubuntu](https://packages.ubuntu.com/eoan/bat) and
@ -182,12 +182,22 @@ If your Ubuntu/Debian installation is new enough you can simply run:
apt install bat
```
If you install `bat` this way, please note that the executable may be installed as `batcat` instead of `bat` (due to [a name
clash with another package](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/issues/982)). You can set up a `bat -> batcat` symlink or alias to prevent any issues that may come up because of this and to be consistent with other distrutions:
``` bash
mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
ln -s /usr/bin/batcat ~/.local/bin/bat
```
### On Ubuntu (using most recent `.deb` packages)
*... and other Debian-based Linux distributions.*
If the package has not yet been promoted to your Ubuntu/Debian installation, or you want
the most recent release of `bat`, download the latest `.deb` package from the
[release page](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/releases) and install it via:
```bash
sudo dpkg -i bat_0.15.0_amd64.deb # adapt version number and architecture
sudo dpkg -i bat_0.15.1_amd64.deb # adapt version number and architecture