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No matter how I do it, I seem to get the nightly or the 0.2.2 version. How do I install the stable version of Neovim. I have too many issues in the nightly.
I used sudo apt install neovim and when I run nvim --version I get:
NVIM v0.5.0-nightly-6-gef0398f
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3
There is ppa recommended on the project page:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neovim-ppa/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install neovim
You'll get v0.4.3:
$ nvim --version
NVIM v0.4.3
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3
Compilation: /usr/bin/cc -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/neovim-U5Ub0w/neovim-0.4.3=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 -DDISABLE_LOG -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 -O2 -DNDEBUG -DMIN_LOG_LEVEL=3 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstrict-prototypes -std=gnu99 -Wshadow -Wconversion -Wmissing-prototypes -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wvla -fstack-protector-strong -fdiagnostics-color=always -DINCLUDE_GENERATED_DECLARATIONS -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNVIM_MSGPACK_HAS_FLOAT32 -DNVIM_UNIBI_HAS_VAR_FROM -I/build/neovim-U5Ub0w/neovim-0.4.3/build/config -I/build/neovim-U5Ub0w/neovim-0.4.3/src -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/lua5.1 -I/build/neovim-U5Ub0w/neovim-0.4.3/build/src/nvim/auto -I/build/neovim-U5Ub0w/neovim-0.4.3/build/include
Compiled by [email protected]
Features: +acl +iconv +tui
See ":help feature-compile"
system vimrc file: "$VIM/sysinit.vim"
fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/nvim"
Run :checkhealth for more info
Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) ships Neovim 0.2.2, so that explains why you'll get that version by default.
You can use a PPA from the “Neovim PPA” team to install the latest Neovim stable on your Ubuntu 18.04 (also available for 16.04 and 19.10)
Use these commands to configure your system to always include this PPA in updates:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neovim-ppa/stable
sudo apt-get update
It's odd that you have a Neovim v0.5.0-nightly installed in your system. If you're getting it from a deb package or from a different PPA, you might want to make sure you uninstall that before you'll be able to install the one from the Stable PPA.
Following worked on ubuntu 20.04 LTS
curl -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/latest/download/nvim.appimage
chmod u+x nvim.appimage
sudo mv nvim.appimage /usr/local/bin
sudo mv nvim.appimage nvim
Hope it helps someone and these commands taken from the following official neovim repo. https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Installing-Neovim#appimage-universal-linux-package
