Neovim: Install using Distrobox or PPA native?

Shareni , 4 months ago

I’d suggest nix and home-manager. I just added the following to my home.nix, and lazyvim works perfectly fine on nvim 0.9.5 (0.9.4 on the stable branch):

<span style="color:#323232;">  home.packages = with pkgs;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    ([
</span><span style="color:#323232;">       ...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      #neovim
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      #git,make,npm,node,and ripgrep are already installed
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      neovim
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      python311
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      python311Packages.pip
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      # python311Packages.pynvim
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      luajitPackages.luarocks
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      cargo
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      # lunarvim
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      lazygit
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      tree-sitter
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      nerdfonts
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      ....
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    ]);
</span>

doomkernel , 4 months ago

You can use bob (a neovim version manager). It requires rustup though

lautan , 3 months ago

This is the best option

Throwaway1234 , 4 months ago

Distrobox FTW!

While distrobox works well, I am worried that mismatches in packages could cause issues.

That should not be a thing in the first place. Though, if you prefer to designate a different home folder for the distrobox container, then it’s worth noting that Distrobox does offer support for that.

spacemanspiffy , 4 months ago

I ran in to this on Debian on WSL on my work machine. Decided to just build Neovim from source.

ksp , 4 months ago

I’be been having the same issue on mint, I did build it from source but it’s not the most convenient. I did afterwards use a fedora atomic (immutable) and a distrobox with fedora classic on it. I think it is the most convenient if you are ready to use containers. You will have to export it to the host and it will use the configuration from your home folder

If I remember well, the PPA is outdated too !

somethingsomethingidk , 4 months ago

If you run in distrobox you should not have issues with dependencies

someacnt_ OP , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Yeah, just tried and there were no issues with dependencies. However, it seems like language servers are not working well. Gotta see how much of a hassle it is to go through it. EDIT: It was missing gcc, installed it and it works! It was less hassle than I expected, thank you!!

hunger , 4 months ago

Why don’t you download the latest release/nightly from github and unpack it somewhere?

someacnt_ OP , 4 months ago

I tried that, but

1. It requires more configuration, the executable was not able to recognize lua-5.1 out-of-the-box.
2. This approach excludes auto-updates.