---
title: Install Flow Control on Linux | Snap Store
description: Get the latest version of Flow Control for Linux - A fast terminal text
  editor for programmers
url: https://snapcraft.io/flow-control
---

# Flow Control

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latest/beta 0.7.2

Install latest/beta of Flow Control

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**Install using the command line**

```
sudo snap install flow-control --beta
```

Don't have snapd? [Get set up for snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

Flow Control is only available on the unstable beta channel. It could break and change often.

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### Package name

* flow-control

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### License

* MIT

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### Last updated

* Today - latest/beta
* Today - latest/edge

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/flow-control#report-snap-modal)

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* [Description](https://snapcraft.io/flow-control#tab-description)
* [Security](https://snapcraft.io/flow-control#tab-security)

#### A fast terminal text editor for programmers

Flow Control is a programmer's text editor for the terminal. It has
tabs, palettes and full mouse support, multiple cursors, clipboard
history, infinite undo and smooth scrolling, and opens very large
files quickly. Syntax highlighting for more than 70 languages comes
from tree-sitter parsers built into the editor, together with its
themes. Keybinding modes are included for Flow (similar to VS Code),
Emacs, Vim and Helix; press F4 to switch between them.

The editor command is flow-control. To type flow instead, run:

```
sudo snap alias flow-control flow
```

**Examples**

```
flow-control ~/notes.md
flow-control src/main.c:120
flow-control README.md +40
flow-control --language bash ~/scripts/backup
flow-control --project ~/code/myapp
flow-control --list-languages
```

Press F1 for the manual, Ctrl+Shift+P or Alt+X for the command palette
and Ctrl+F2 for the list of keybindings. A terminal with 24-bit color,
a Nerd Font and a UTF-8 locale is recommended.

**File access**

Flow Control can edit files in your home directory. To also edit files
on USB drives and other removable media (/media, /mnt), run:

```
sudo snap connect flow-control:removable-media
```

The configuration is stored in ~/snap/flow-control/current/.config/flow.

**Strict confinement**

git and ripgrep are included, so git status, the project file list and
find in files work. Language servers, formatters and other programs
installed on your computer cannot be started from the editor, so code
completion, diagnostics and formatting through them are not available.

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## Install Flow Control on your Linux distribution

Choose your Linux distribution to get detailed installation instructions. If yours is not shown, get more details on the [installing snapd documentation](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

[### Arch Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/flow-control/arch)

[### CentOS](https://snapcraft.io/install/flow-control/centos)

[### Debian](https://snapcraft.io/install/flow-control/debian)

[### elementary OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/flow-control/elementary)

[### Fedora](https://snapcraft.io/install/flow-control/fedora)

[### KDE Neon](https://snapcraft.io/install/flow-control/kde-neon)

[### Kubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/flow-control/kubuntu)

[### Manjaro](https://snapcraft.io/install/flow-control/manjaro)

[### Pop!\_OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/flow-control/pop)

[### openSUSE](https://snapcraft.io/install/flow-control/opensuse)

[### Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/flow-control/rhel)

[### Ubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/flow-control/ubuntu)

[### Raspberry Pi](https://snapcraft.io/install/flow-control/raspbian)