i've installed neovim with nix package manager on mint.
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I use bob. It's a version manager for Neovim.
Hi Bob.
Sorry I had to do this reference from "For All Mankind"
I'm a heavy neovim user, also using Linux mint. I use the app image from the GitHub release page. Sure it means having it not automated, but that's fine with me.
Basically download the appimage, make it executable with chmod +x and move it to a location in your PATH, line ~/.local/bin/nvim (nvim being the name of the file, add that to your path. Another popular location might be /usr/local/bin/nvim). Afterwards, you can just use nvim in your terminal.
does that work for flatpak and does nvchad work on the flatpak? can you test both to see if they work before you confirm cause yk how to do this stuff better than me. if nvchad doesnt work on flatpak, i'll try this! also how do i add those directories to path and how do i use the chmod command. getting used to this apologies!
chmod is a command line tool for changing permission and mode flags on a file. chmod +x modifies a file to be allowed to be executed. You can use it by typing chmod +x followed by a filename into your terminal.
PATH usually refers to an environment variable that stores paths to common executable files. When you type a command into your terminal, Linux will search that environment variable to check if the program you want to execute is mentioned there. Adding nvim to that environment variable is like adding a shortcut to your terminal that allows you to call nvim, no matter what the current context of your terminal is, and without having to remember the full path of where nvim is stored. Here is a discussion about how to add something to your path variable.
does this all work for flatpak variants? i dont have to use ch mod for that but can i add it to the path and then add nvchad?
I am assuming you had a typo and mean NvChad (edit: just now realized you did mention NvChad in the title already). Yes you can, but calling flatpak applications on the command line is kinda weird so I would actually suggest an alias if you want to be able to just type nvim in your terminal.
To start the flatpak version of neovim via the CLI you'll need to type flatpak run io.neovim.nvim. Of course you don't want to do that, so you can tell your terminal to remember that whenever you type nvim you actually meant flatpak run io.neovim.nvim. To do that you can put the following in your terminal: alias nvim='flatpak run io.neovim.nvim'
As far as I understand, NvChad is a plugin for neovim. The command they provide for installing it just downloads the necessary files to the default config location for neovim, and starts neovim. however the flatpak version of neovim seems to be using a different location for it's configuration. This blog post seems to say that the config location for flatpak neovim is ~/.var/app/io.neovim.nvim/config/nvim/, so you'll probably have to move the files there for NvChad to work.
Nvchad is a ready made neovim config, that can be extended, not just a plugin.
I never used neovim so I'm not so familiar with the functionalities/terms. I was torn between writing plugin or config, but I thought a plugin would be more relevant. I'm assuming a plugin can change more than a config could.
The config for modern neovim users mainly consists of plugins and configs for plugins.
hi! have you foubd out if nvchad works on flatpak?
Haven't gotten to try yet, will do
awesome!!
For me personally, it doesnt load my configs. So better use appimage
is the appimage really not an option? I think if you did what the original comment told you it should work.
tried but it was funny, wouldnt lrt me doubld click into it and its ui was weirf
i tried copying and pasting into the config file in the flatpak but it just ignored them and recreated thw original flatpak filws?
I don't think I'll be able to help you with this issue, sorry
thats cool dw :3
I've generally just been compiling from source. Sometimes in a docker container.
My man, I just installed Mint and nvchad was on my list.
what list
of what to install after distro hoping
Available as flatpak https://flathub.org/apps/io.neovim.nvim
flathub is old, also nvchad wont work with it (or at least idk how. same with doom emacs for emacs)
No, flathub has the latest version (0.95), as you can see on the project's Github page (0.95): https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases
oh strange sorry, onky the system package is outdated
Last release wad 25 days ago
Try installing it with nix
distrobox with Fedora or Arch
Options:
- Use bob version manager
- Add the ppa
- Use Nix Package Manager (Don't go down the Nix rabbit hole unless you really want to)
are ppas permanent? does my system scan for those addresses every update?
AFAIK, if you install via the ppa, then it will update neovim when you apt update
Throw it in an arch distrobox and export it
There's a PPA for neovim, currently at 0.7.x : https://launchpad.net/~neovim-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/stable Oh, sorry, I see NvChad wants 0.9.4 and Nerdfonts (Though not a hard requirement : https://docs.rockylinux.org/books/nvchad/nerd_fonts/).
https://launchpad.net/~neovim-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/unstable -> 0.10.x
That's by far not the latest version. The current prerelease is on v0.10
what is nerdfonts and dies linux mimt have it
According to that article mentioned in my earlier comment you won't need the nerdfonts.
whats a ppa and why does it take so long for apt to update its stuff
Ubuntu uses LTS with five year support, which is why they like to keep a lot of software versions back. Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu I think. PPA is something you can add to Ubuntu or Ubuntu based Linux distributions to have newer or specific software repositories as extra on your system. Here's a guide on PPA : https://itsfoss.com/ppa-guide/