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After resisting for a bit, I decided to try the plugin manager vim-plug.

It seemed to work well when installing the GhostText plugin, except that I had to do the installation in a sudo nvim session, and the plugin only works when in such a session. If I start my session with the command nvim and run the command :GhostStart, I get the following error:

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Note: I already changed the owner of the directory ~/.local/share/nvim to myself, and it did not help.

How can I solve this?

EDIT: If I run :GhostInstall in a non-sudo session, I get this error: enter image description here

and env | grep ^XDG_ outputs: enter image description here

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  • The GhostText documentation states that the SimpleWebSocketServer is automatically installed as a pip --user dependency when :GhostInstall runs. You ran GhostInstall as root, so it makes sense that it won't be installed for a different user. You mentioned that you had to do the installation in a sudo nvim session, but not why you had to install it in that way. Could you add some more details to your question explaining this, please?
    – Rich
    Commented Aug 30, 2019 at 15:40
  • @Rich I will update my question.
    – soap
    Commented Aug 30, 2019 at 15:54
  • Try running the same command on the command-line, to see its output: python3.6 -m pip install --user -r ~/.local/share/nvim/plugged/vim-ghost/requirements_posix.txt.
    – filbranden
    Commented Aug 30, 2019 at 16:29
  • @filbranden It says that file does not exist. And weirdly enough, if I do ls in the plugged directory it says it is empty
    – soap
    Commented Aug 30, 2019 at 16:31
  • Actually, for some reason it seems it's trying to use /.local (under the root directory) rather than ~/.local (under your home directory)... Maybe that's a big part of the problem?
    – filbranden
    Commented Aug 30, 2019 at 16:32

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