helix for Debian

helix-editor/helix — A post-modern modal text editor. — packaged for Debian as part of latest-debs.

Want your own project packaged and maintained this way? See the latest-debs packaging service.

Install

Via the latest-debs apt repository:

sudo extrepo enable latest-debs
sudo apt update
sudo apt install helix

Or download a .deb from the Releases page:

sudo dpkg -i helix_*.deb

Debian Bullseye (11), Bookworm (12), Trixie (13), Forky (14/testing), Sid (unstable)
amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, armel, loong64, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x — whichever architectures helix-editor/helix actually publishes a Linux binary for

Unofficial, volunteer-run packaging — best-effort, no SLA.

Update cadence: publishing a release normally triggers an immediate apt-repo rebuild via webhook; the ~6h scheduled run is the fallback. GitHub outages, a missing trigger token, rate limits, or upstream archive changes can delay or skip an update; there is no freshness guarantee.
Draft releases: every build is published as a draft that a maintainer reviews before promoting, so a new version can lag its build.

For issues with helix itself, see helix-editor/helix.