install lunarvim on ubuntu
Install prerequisites
Neovim
Approach 1: makedeb package
The neovim in Debian official repo is v0.6, but lunarvim acquires v0.8+.
kde - Can't install neovim v0.8.0+ on Ubuntu - Super User provides a solution: install neovim from the makedeb package registry
Installing Packages | makedeb Docs
> bash -ci "$(wget -qO - 'https://shlink.makedeb.org/install')"
> wget -qO - 'https://proget.makedeb.org/debian-feeds/prebuilt-mpr.pub' | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/prebuilt-mpr-archive-keyring.gpg 1> /dev/null
> echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/prebuilt-mpr-archive-keyring.gpg] https://proget.makedeb.org prebuilt-mpr $(lsb_release -cs)" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/prebuilt-mpr.list
> sudo apt update
mist doesn’t work in my case so I create the package using makedeb.
> git clone https://mpr.makedeb.org/neovim.git
> cd neovim
> makedeb -si
After long building process, test neovim version:
> nvim -v
NVIM v0.9.1
Build type: Debug
LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3
Approach 2: AppImage
Installing Neovim · neovim/neovim Wiki · GitHub
> curl -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/latest/download/nvim.appimage
> chmod u+x nvim.appimage
> ./nvim.appimage --appimage-extract
> sudo mv squashfs-root /
> sudo ln -s /squashfs-root/AppRun /usr/bin/nvim
> nvim -v
NVIM v0.9.1
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3
make
> sudo apt-get install make
pip
> sudo apt-get install pip
node.js, npm
(Update on 1st Sept. 2023: The following method is now deprecated. Visit GitHub - nodesource/distributions: NodeSource Node.js Binary Distributions for details.
GitHub - nodesource/distributions: NodeSource Node.js Binary Distributions
> curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_20.x | sudo -E bash - &&\
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
cargo
Other Installation Methods - Rust Forge
> curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
lazygit
https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit#installation
> LAZYGIT_VERSION=$(curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/jesseduffield/lazygit/releases/latest" | grep -Po '"tag_name": "v\K[^"]*')
> curl -Lo lazygit.tar.gz "https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/releases/latest/download/lazygit_${LAZYGIT_VERSION}_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz"
> tar xf lazygit.tar.gz lazygit
> sudo install lazygit /usr/local/bin
Install LunarVim
> LV_BRANCH='release-1.3/neovim-0.9' bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LunarVim/LunarVim/release-1.3/neovim-0.9/utils/installer/install.sh)
add the lvim dir to env:
> vim ~/.zshrc # or .bashrc, etc. according to the shell used
add the following into it:
export PATH="/home/<username>/.local/bin:$PATH"
then run:
> source .zshrc
Now calling lvim will invoke LunarVim.