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Updates: November 5, 2024

Contents: Steps to install the latest version of NVim from source (v0.10.2)

Set Up Environment for NVim Installation

Update your package list and install necessary packages:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install curl python-dev python-pip python3-dev python3-pip -y

Install NVim:

mkdir -p /opt/nvim
curl -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/latest/download/nvim.appimage
chmod u+x nvim.appimage
./nvim.appimage

Optional: Exposing nvim globally

# Optional: exposing nvim globally
mkdir -p /opt/nvim
mv nvim.appimage /opt/nvim/nvim

Add the following line to your shell config (~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, ...):

# And the following line to your shell config (~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, ...):
export PATH="$PATH:/opt/nvim/"

If the above method doesn't work (as it didn't in my case), try the following:

./nvim.appimage --appimage-extract
./squashfs-root/AppRun --version

Optional: Exposing nvim globally

# Optional: exposing nvim globally.
sudo mv squashfs-root /
sudo ln -s /squashfs-root/AppRun /usr/bin/nvim
nvim --version

References

• https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim