Unsupported packages

These guides are user-contributed and not supported by SirCmpwn. Most distributions have a Sway package available in the official repositories. Here's some info for the ones that don't:

• Installation guide for Debian 9 stable (Stretch).
• Installation guide for Debian 10 stable (Buster).

There is an unsupported PPA ppa:samoilov-lex/sway that includes a sway package which is compatible with Ubuntu 19.04+. Run following commands (as root) in order to install Sway from the PPA:

add-apt-repository ppa:samoilov-lex/sway
apt update
apt install sway

Quick guide to building sway on Fedora 29.

Various COPRs are available, e.g. https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/gumieri/sway/

To install sway on Arch Linux run:

sudo pacman -S sway

There is also extra documentation available that can be found here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sway