In this short tutorial, I’ll show you how to install Neovim on Ubuntu in three different ways 1) from a precompiled binary, 2) using Ubuntu’s package manager and 3) from source code.
Download the binary
wget -c https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/latest/download/nvim-linux64.tar.gz tar xvf nvim-linux64.tar.gz sudo mv nvim-linux64 /usr/local/nvim cd /usr/local/bin sudo ln -svf ../nvim/bin/nvim nvim
Now, you should be able to run nvim
on the command line.
Use the package manager
Neovim has been in the Ubuntu’s package archive for a while, so you can simply use the following command:
sudo apt install neovim
While this method is the easiest, it might not get you the latest version.
Build from source code
By building from the source code, you can get the latest version available, but it requires installing a few dependencies and running a few commands.
sudo apt-get install ninja-build gettext cmake unzip curl git clone https://github.com/neovim/neovim cd neovim && git checkout stable make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo sudo make install
There you are, if everything went well, you should have the latest (though stable) version of Neovim.
For other platforms, see the official documentation.