From the release tarball:

## Installation

### Binary Packages

Recent versions of aerc are available on:

- [Alpine] - [Arch] - [Debian] - [Fedora] - [macOS through Homebrew]

And likely other platforms.

### From Source

Install the dependencies:

- go (>=1.16) (Go versions are supported until their end-of-life; support for older versions may be dropped at any time due to incompatibilities or newer required language features.) - [scdoc](https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/scdoc)

Then compile aerc:

    $ make