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Building Neovim on Debian

Install build prerequisites

$ sudo apt-get install ninja-build gettext libtool libtool-bin autoconf automake cmake g++ pkg-config unzip curl doxygen
$ git clone https://github.com/neovim/neovim
$ cd neovim && make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo

Some of the dependencies may fail to download and you will need to download them manually to the .deps/build/download directory and grant permissions, then repeat make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo

  • mediator_lua-1.1.2-0.tar.gz
  • nvim-client-0.2.4-1.src.rock
$ sudo make install

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