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How to build neovim on ubuntu 20.04

Environment

  • Ubuntu 20.04
  • fish, version 3.1.2

Installation

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Building-Neovim#build-prerequisites

sudo apt-get install ninja-build gettext libtool libtool-bin autoconf automake cmake g++ pkg-config unzip
make
sudo make install

FAQ

Problem

Cmake error :generator: Ninja

Solustion

rm -f (find -name CMakeCache.txt)
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hinell commented Nov 13, 2022

You have to differentiate betweee developer dependencies and app dependencies. App deps are the following:

luajit libluajit-5.1-dev lua-mpack lua-lpeg liblua5.3-dev libunibilium-dev libmsgpack-dev libtermkey-dev libvterm-dev

The following two you have to install manually or use cmake.deps auto-loaders

tree-sitter luv

Installing these worked for me on [K]Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS.

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hinell commented Nov 14, 2022

I wrote a script for building neovim, checkout: ubuntu-neovim-install.

You have to download it into a neovim repo frok and run ... deps.install; ... neovim.build

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