neovim

Installing neovim and my custom configuration, plugins, etc...

At the time of writing, the stable version of neovim is 0.4, but some of the plugins I use require version >0.5. The steps below detail the installation of the unstable/nightly builds of neovim.

Installing on macOS

Install neovim with brew

$ brew install --HEAD luajit
$ brew install --HEAD neovim

Install additional binaries with brew

• node.js

  $ brew install node.js
  

• fzf

  $ brew install fzf
  $ $(brew --prefix)/opt/fzf/install
  

• ripgrep

  $ brew install ripgrep
  

Installing on Ubuntu WSL

Install neovim with apt

Ubuntu installation instructions say to add the unstable repository using add-apt-repository, but that may not work depending on your proxy configuration. The error below is not obvious that the proxy is the problem.

$ sudo -E add-apt-repository ppa:neovim-ppa/unstable
Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:~neovim-ppa/ubuntu/unstable'.

You can manually add the repository.

1. Update repository sources

   Create a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d

   $ sudo cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/neovim-unstable.list
   # neovim - nightly build
   deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/neovim-ppa/unstable/ubuntu hirsute main 
   deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/neovim-ppa/unstable/ubuntu hirsute main 
   

2. Get PUBKEY value

   Run apt update, which will fail, but it will give an error that containts the PUBKEY that we need for the next step.

   $ sudo apt update
   Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-security InRelease [114 kB]
   Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute InRelease
   Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/neovim-ppa/unstable/ubuntu hirsute InRelease [18.1 kB]
   Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-updates InRelease [114 kB]
   Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-backports InRelease [101 kB]
   Err:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/neovim-ppa/unstable/ubuntu hirsute InRelease
   The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 55F96FCF8231B6DD
   Reading package lists... Done
   W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net/neovim-ppa/unstable/ubuntu hirsute InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 55F96FCF8231B6DD
   E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/neovim-ppa/unstable/ubuntu hirsute InRelease' is not signed.
   N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
   N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
   

3. Download and add PUBKEY

   Use the PUBKEY above and add it to the URL below to add the key.

   $ curl -sL "https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x55F96FCF8231B6DD" | sudo apt-key add
   OK
   

4. Run apt update

   $ sudo apt update
   Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/neovim-ppa/unstable/ubuntu hirsute InRelease [18.1 kB]
   Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-security InRelease [114 kB]
   Hit:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute InRelease
   Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-updates InRelease [114 kB]
   Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-backports InRelease [101 kB]
   Get:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/neovim-ppa/unstable/ubuntu hirsute/main Sources [796 B]
   Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/neovim-ppa/unstable/ubuntu hirsute/main amd64 Packages [588 B]
   Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/neovim-ppa/unstable/ubuntu hirsute/main Translation-en [200 B]
   Fetched 348 kB in 45s (7660 B/s)
   Reading package lists... Done
   Building dependency tree
   Reading state information... Done
   All packages are up to date.
   

5. Install neovim

   $ sudo apt install neovim
   

Install additional binaries with apt

• node.js

  $ sudo apt install npm
  

• fzf

  $ sudo apt install fzf
  

• ripgrep

  $ sudo apt install ripgrep
  

Clone configuration files

$ mkdir -p ~/.config/nvim
$ git clone https://github.com/Kristijan/neovim.git ~/.config/nvim

Install Plug

Follow the installation instructions at https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug

Install plugins

Start nvim and run :PlugInstall. When you first state it, it will error because it can't find themes and plugins, but you can ignore that, as they'll be installed by Plug.