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# macOS brew install yazi ffmpeg sevenzip jq poppler fd ripgrep fzf zoxide imagemagick # Arch Linux pacman -S yazi ffmpeg p7zip jq poppler fd ripgrep fzf zoxide imagemagick # Ubuntu / Debian (official packages are outdated — use the binary) curl -LO https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi/releases/latest/download/yazi-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.zip unzip yazi-*.zip && sudo mv yazi-*/yazi /usr/local/bin/ # Cargo cargo install yazi-fm yazi-cli
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Linux has X11 or Wayland, so Überzug++ can overlay actual images on top of the terminal window — much better quality than Chafa.
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On macOS, Überzug++'s X11/Wayland backend is disabled at compile time, so it can't overlay images. yazi automatically falls back to Chafa, which renders images using Unicode block characters inside the terminal.
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