Zed IDE: install on pyrite¶

Zed is a high-performance, GPU-accelerated code editor with built-in AI assistance. This guide covers installation on pyrite (Ubuntu desktop).

Install¶

Zed provides an official install script:

curl -f https://zed.dev/install.sh | sh

This installs the zed binary to ~/.local/bin/zed. Make sure ~/.local/bin is in your PATH (it is by default on modern Ubuntu).

Launch¶

zed
# or open a specific file/directory
zed ~/code/my-project

A .desktop entry is also installed automatically, so Zed will appear in the application launcher.

Updates¶

Zed updates itself automatically. To manually trigger an update, open the command palette (Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+P) and run zed: check for updates, or simply re-run the install script.

AI / LLM integration¶

Zed supports multiple AI backends. To use the local llama.cpp inference server on pyrite (or via model-gateway):

Open settings: Cmd/Ctrl+,
Set assistant.provider to openai (Zed uses the OpenAI-compatible API format)
Set the endpoint to http://localhost:8502/v1 (local llama.cpp) or https://promptlyapi.com/v1 (model-gateway, requires API key)

Useful keybindings¶

Action	Keybinding
Command palette	`Ctrl+Shift+P`
Open file	`Ctrl+P`
Toggle terminal	Ctrl+`
AI assistant panel	`Ctrl+?`
Multi-cursor	`Ctrl+D`