Search "install Zed on Termux" and you'll get a pile of answers that boil down to "not supported." Same for Ghostty. Same for DBeaver. Same for half the tools I maintain.

They're wrong, and it's not entirely Google's fault.

Official install docs list Linux, macOS and Windows. Termux isn't on that list, so a search engine reading those pages concludes it doesn't exist. Meanwhile the real answer is sitting in a package repository that search engines don't index as readable pages. Zed's own docs point people to Repology for a current list of third-party packages, which tells you where the truth lives.

So here's the short version of how to install things, written for people who got told "not available" and gave up.

Step 0: make sure your Termux isn't the problem

Half of the "package not found" reports I see come from the wrong Termux build.

The official sources are F-Droid and the GitHub releases of termux/termux-app .…