How to Install ag Silver Searcher (silversearcher-ag) on ARM Devices [Raspberry Pi, Odroid]

ag is my favorite code search tool, in the whole wide world.

Here’s how to install it on your ARM devices:

# Debian/Ubuntu/Raspberry Pi OS
apt update -y
apt install build-essential autoconf pkg-config libpcre3-dev liblzma-dev -y
wget https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/archive/2.0.0.tar.gz
tar -xzvf 2.0.0.tar.gz
cd the_silver_searcher-2.0.0
export PCRE_CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/pcre
./build.sh
make install

And on CentOS/RHEL:

# CentOS/RHEL
yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum -y install pcre-devel xz-devel zlib-devel 
wget https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/archive/2.0.0.tar.gz
tar -xzvf 2.0.0.tar.gz
cd the_silver_searcher-2.0.0
./build.sh
make install

And on Arch based:

# install from community
sudo pacman -S the_silver_searcher

# or install yay
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si
yay silver searcher