Zola provides pre-built binaries for MacOS, Linux and Windows on the GitHub release page.
Zola is available on Brew:
$ brew install zola
Zola is also available on MacPorts:
$ sudo port install zola
Zola is available in the official Arch Linux repositories.
$ pacman -S zola
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
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
On Fedora, Zola is available via COPR.
$ sudo dnf copr enable fz0x1/zola
$ sudo dnf install zola
Zola is available in the official Void Linux repositories.
$ sudo xbps-install zola
Zola is available in the official package repository.
$ pkg install zola
Zola is available in the official package repository.
$ doas pkg_add zola
Zola is available in the official package repository, with pkgin.
$ pkgin install zola
Zola is available on snapcraft:
$ snap install --edge zola
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"
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
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@0.17.1
# ...
See the action repo for docs and more examples.
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:v0.17.1
$ docker run -u "$(id -u):$(id -g)" -v $PWD:/app --workdir /app ghcr.io/getzola/zola:v0.17.1 build
$ docker run -u "$(id -u):$(id -g)" -v $PWD:/app --workdir /app -p 8080:8080 ghcr.io/getzola/zola:v0.17.1 serve --interface 0.0.0.0 --port 8080 --base-url localhost
You can now browse http://localhost:8080.
To enable live browser reload, you may have to bind to port 1024. Zola searches for an open port between 1024 and 9000 for live reload. The new docker command would be
$ docker run -u "$(id -u):$(id -g)" -v $PWD:/app --workdir /app -p 8080:8080 -p 1024:1024 ghcr.io/getzola/zola:v0.17.1 serve --interface 0.0.0.0 --port 8080 --base-url localhost
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:v0.17.1 as zola
COPY . /project
WORKDIR /project
RUN ["zola", "build"]
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.
To build Zola from source, you will need to have Git, Rust and Cargo installed.
From a terminal, you can now run the following commands:
$ git clone https://github.com/getzola/zola.git
$ cd zola
$ cargo install --path . --locked
$ 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 build --release --locked --no-default-features --features=native-tls
The binary will be available in the target/release directory. You can move it in your $PATH to have the
zola command available globally:
$ cp target/release/zola ~/.cargo/bin/zola
or in a directory if you want for example to have the binary in the same repository as the site.