How to install Neovim on Ubuntu?

Question

How can I install Neovim on Ubuntu? Should I compile it from source?

The installation steps are a little bit blurry for me...

Buddyshot · Accepted Answer · 2022-01-03T10:24:08.437

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From the universe repo

sudo apt install neovim

From source

Download the master branch from Github

Install the dependencies

sudo apt-get install libtool autoconf automake cmake libncurses5-dev g++

Go to the root of the project and build
```
make cmake
make test
```
Run nvim in /neovim-master/build/bin

That works for me.

From the PPA repository

Add the repository

 $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neovim-ppa/unstable

Update and install

 $ sudo apt-get update
 $ sudo apt-get install neovim

edited Jan 03 '22 at 10:24

answered Mar 05 '14 at 19:51

Buddyshot

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After that you might want to create a symlink in /usr/bin to point to nvim location so that it is indirectly included in your $PATH. – Buddyshot Mar 05 '14 at 19:55
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I would suggest creating a symlink in ~/bin and adding that directory to your path. This makes it easier to add other scripts to your PATH too. – aignas Aug 22 '14 at 09:57
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Might need to install libtool-bin, as well. – Jonathan E. Landrum Nov 10 '16 at 21:41

score 14 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 18 '15 at 13:02

14

According to official Wiki:

Neovim has been added to a Personal Package Archive which allows you to install it using apt-get on Ubuntu 12.04 and later

Run the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neovim-ppa/unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install neovim

Prerequisites for the Python modules:

sudo apt-get install python-dev python-pip python3-dev python3-pip

answered Jun 18 '15 at 13:02

petRUShka

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You still have to install Python modules by hand, which sucks IMHO. – art-solopov Dec 24 '15 at 21:15
See this wiki section for the three easy steps to install python modules. – Tom Hale Oct 20 '16 at 09:21

score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 02 '20 at 19:46

7

Now you can simply do:

sudo apt install neovim

answered Jun 02 '20 at 19:46

Leandro

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2

This version is usually very old. It's better to use ppa. – AsukaMinato Mar 04 '22 at 20:20

score 4 · Answer 4 · 2019-05-19T09:44:35.433

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curl -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/download/nightly/nvim.appimage
chmod u+x nvim.appimage
./nvim.appimage

from https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Installing-Neovim

It just downloads standalone appimage. u can place it in path if you want to excute it from anywhere. Works on ALL DISTRIBUTIONS

edited May 19 '19 at 09:44

answered Nov 22 '17 at 16:47

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 06 '23 at 11:07

You can install it with sudo apt install neovim or sudo snap install nvim --classic but in both cases you will not get the latest version of neovim, with apt being the worst of the two.

The best way to install the latest version of Neovim - and keep it up to date - is by using bob:

wget https://github.com/MordechaiHadad/bob/releases/download/<version>/bob-linux-x86_64.zip
unzip bob-linux-x86_64.zip
cd bob-linux-x86_64/
chmod +x bob
echo "export PATH=\"/home/<username>/.local/share/bob/nvim-bin:\$PATH\"" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
./bob install stable
./bob use stable

score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Mar 06 '22 at 10:24

0

I followed the;

git clone **; 
cd neovim; 
make cmake
make test

ended up with nvim that worked, but isn't integrated with the system. I might leave him a few weeks/months to get it into some sort of state. But it does work.

edited Mar 06 '22 at 10:24

AsukaMinato

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answered Mar 05 '14 at 19:49

DanWebb

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How to install Neovim on Ubuntu?

6 Answers6

From the universe repo

From source

From the PPA repository