Installation

Zola provides pre-built binaries for MacOS, Linux and Windows on the GitHub release page.

🔗macOS

Zola is available on Brew:

$ brew install zola

Zola is also available on MacPorts:

$ sudo port install zola

🔗Arch Linux

Zola is available in the official Arch Linux repositories.

$ pacman -S zola

🔗Alpine Linux

Zola is available in the official Alpine Linux community repository since Alpine v3.13.

See this section of the Alpine Wiki explaining how to enable the community repository if necessary: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Repositories#Enabling_the_community_repository

$ apk add zola

🔗Debian

Zola is available over at barnumbirr/zola-debian. Grab the latest .deb for your Debian version then simply run:

$ sudo dpkg -i zola_<version>_amd64_debian_<debian_version>.deb

🔗Gentoo

Zola is available via GURU.

See the end user documentation for how to enable the GURU repository. Afterwards simply run:

$ sudo emerge --ask www-apps/zola

🔗Void Linux

Zola is available in the official Void Linux repositories.

$ sudo xbps-install zola

🔗FreeBSD

Zola is available in the official package repository.

$ pkg install zola

🔗OpenBSD

Zola is available in the official package repository.

$ doas pkg_add zola

🔗openSUSE

🔗openSUSE Tumbleweed

Zola is available in the official openSUSE Tumbleweed main OSS repository.

$ sudo zypper install zola

🔗openSUSE Leap

Zola is available in the official experimental utilities repository.

$ sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/utilities/15.6/utilities.repo
$ sudo zypper refresh
$ sudo zypper install zola

🔗pkgsrc

Zola is available in the official package repository, with pkgin.

$ pkgin install zola

🔗Snapcraft

Zola is available on snapcraft:

$ snap install --edge zola

🔗Flatpak

Zola is available as a flatpak on flathub:

$ flatpak install flathub org.getzola.zola

To use zola:

$ flatpak run org.getzola.zola [command]

To avoid having to type this every time, an alias can be created in ~/.bashrc:

$ alias zola="flatpak run org.getzola.zola"

🔗NixOS / Nixpkgs

Zola is available in the nixpkgs repository. If you're using NixOS, you can install Zola by adding the following to /etc/nixos/configuration.nix:

environment.systemPackages = [
  pkgs.zola
];

If you're using Nix as a package manager in another OS, you can install it using:

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.zola

🔗Via Github Actions

Zola can be installed in a GHA workflow with taiki-e/install-action. Simply add it in your CI config, for example:

jobs:
  foo:
    steps:
      - uses: taiki-e/install-action@v2
        with:
          tool: zola@0.19.1
      # ...

See the action repo for docs and more examples.

🔗Docker

Zola is available on the GitHub registry. It has no latest tag, you will need to specify a specific version to pull.

$ docker pull ghcr.io/getzola/zola:v0.19.1

🔗Build

$ docker run -u "$(id -u):$(id -g)" -v $PWD:/app --workdir /app ghcr.io/getzola/zola:v0.19.1 build

🔗Serve

$ docker run -u "$(id -u):$(id -g)" -v $PWD:/app --workdir /app -p 8080:8080 ghcr.io/getzola/zola:v0.19.1 serve --interface 0.0.0.0 --port 8080 --base-url localhost

You can now browse http://localhost:8080.

🔗Multi-stage build

Since there is no shell in the Zola docker image, if you want to use it from inside a Dockerfile, you have to use the exec form of RUN, like:

FROM ghcr.io/getzola/zola:v0.19.1 as zola

COPY . /project
WORKDIR /project
RUN ["zola", "build"]

🔗Windows

Zola could be installed using official Winget command:

$ winget install getzola.zola

Also it is available on Scoop:

$ scoop install zola

and Chocolatey:

$ choco install zola

Zola does not work in PowerShell ISE.

🔗From source

To build Zola from source, you will need to have Rust and Cargo installed.

From a terminal, you can now run the following commands:

$ cargo install --locked --git https://github.com/getzola/zola
$ zola --version

If you encountered compilation errors like error: failed to run custom build command for 'ring v0.16.20', you can try the command below instead:

$ cargo install --locked --no-default-features --features=native-tls --git https://github.com/getzola/zola

Cargo will install the zola binary in ~/.cargo/bin/. You can move it into the repository of your site if you want.