What is Starship?
Starship is a fast, customizable cross-shell prompt written in Rust. It works with Bash, Zsh, Fish, PowerShell and more, showing contextual information — git status, language versions, cloud context and much more — through a single, consistent and highly configurable prompt that stays snappy even in large repositories.
🚀 Why Staying Current Matters: Starship is actively developed with new modules, integrations and performance work. Running the latest release gives you the newest prompt modules and configuration options.
⚡ Key Features of Starship
⚡ Fast
Written in Rust and optimized to keep your prompt responsive everywhere.
🐚 Cross-shell
One prompt for Bash, Zsh, Fish, PowerShell, Nushell and others.
🎨 Fully Customizable
Configure every module and symbol through a single TOML file.
🧩 Context Aware
Shows git state, language versions, cloud context and more, only when relevant.
🎯 Why Starship?
- Consistent everywhere: The same prompt across all your shells and machines
- Rich context: Git, languages and environment at a glance
- Highly configurable: Tune every detail via starship.toml
- Fast: Minimal latency even in big repositories
🆕 Highlights
- Cross-shell: Works in every popular shell
- Modules: Dozens of built-in context modules
- TOML Config: Single, portable configuration file
- Presets: Ready-made looks like Nerd Font symbols
📦 Installation from deb-free.griffo.io
Step 1: Add Repository
sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://deb-free.griffo.io/EA0F721D231FDD3A0A17B9AC7808B4DD62C41256.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor --yes -o /etc/apt/keyrings/deb-free.griffo.io.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/deb-free.griffo.io.gpg] https://deb-free.griffo.io/apt $(lsb_release -sc 2>/dev/null) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deb-free.griffo.io.list > /dev/null
sudo apt update
install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://deb-free.griffo.io/EA0F721D231FDD3A0A17B9AC7808B4DD62C41256.asc | gpg --dearmor --yes -o /etc/apt/keyrings/deb-free.griffo.io.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/deb-free.griffo.io.gpg] https://deb-free.griffo.io/apt $(lsb_release -sc 2>/dev/null) main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deb-free.griffo.io.list > /dev/null
apt update
Step 2: Install starship
# Install latest starship
sudo apt install starship
# Verify installation
starship --version
# Install latest starship
apt install starship
# Verify installation
starship --version
🎯 Basic Usage Examples
# Show version
starship --version
# Add to ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(starship init bash)"' >> ~/.bashrc
# Add to ~/.zshrc
echo 'eval "$(starship init zsh)"' >> ~/.zshrc
# Add to Fish (~/.config/fish/config.fish)
echo 'starship init fish | source' >> ~/.config/fish/config.fish
# Print the effective configuration
starship print-config
🚀 Why Choose deb-free.griffo.io?
📊 Repository Comparison:
- Official Debian: Often months behind, missing latest features
- deb.griffo.io (main): Latest version within hours of release
- Manual Installation: Manual downloads and PATH setup required
- Our Repository: Pre-built, ready-to-use packages
- ✅ Latest Features: Get newest Starship features and improvements immediately
- ✅ No Manual Setup: Pre-built binaries, installed and updated through apt
- ✅ Automatic Updates: Packages updated once a release is at least 2 months old; security fixes ship immediately
- ✅ Proper Dependencies: Correctly packaged with all required libraries
- ✅ Multi-Distribution: Works on Bookworm, Trixie, and Sid
- ✅ Easy Maintenance: Simple apt commands for updates
📦 Package Build Repository
The Debian packages are automatically built and maintained in this GitHub repository:
- 📁 starship-debian - Latest release builds
🔗 Related Packages
Also available from deb.griffo.io:
- Zellij - Terminal workspace and multiplexer
- Atuin - Shell history sync, search and stats
- zoxide - Smarter cd command for your terminal
🎯 Perfect for: Anyone who wants a fast, informative and consistent shell prompt across Bash, Zsh, Fish and other shells, with deep customization through a single config file.
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