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Installation

Prerequisites

• Make sure you have installed the latest version of Neovim v0.9.0+.
• Have git, make, pip, python, npm, node, unzip, cargo and ripgrep installed on your system.
• Resolve EACCES permissions when installing packages globally to avoid error when installing packages with npm.
• PowerShell 7+ (for Windows).

Optional Feature Prerequisites

• Install lazygit. This enables <leader>gg to launch lazygit for integrated and enhanced Git experience while in lvim.

Release

(Neovim 0.9.5)

No alarms and No surprises:

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LV_BRANCH='release-1.4/neovim-0.9' bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LunarVim/LunarVim/release-1.4/neovim-0.9/utils/installer/install.sh)

pwsh -c "`$LV_BRANCH='release-1.4/neovim-0.9'; iwr https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LunarVim/LunarVim/release-1.4/neovim-0.9/utils/installer/install.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | iex"

This is intended just to take a look at the base functionalities, so some interactions may be blocked by the environment.

docker run -w /tmp -it --rm alpine:edge sh -uelic 'addgroup -S lunaruser && adduser -S lunaruser -G lunaruser --shell /bin/sh && apk add yarn git python3 cargo neovim ripgrep alpine-sdk bash curl --update && LV_BRANCH='release-1.4/neovim-0.9' su -c "bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lunarvim/lunarvim/release-1.4/neovim-0.9/utils/installer/install.sh) --no-install-dependencies" lunaruser && su -c /home/lunaruser/.local/bin/lvim lunaruser'

Nightly

(Neovim 0.10.0)

All the new features with all the new bugs:

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lunarvim/lunarvim/master/utils/installer/install.sh)

pwsh -c "iwr https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LunarVim/LunarVim/master/utils/installer/install.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | iex"

This is intended just to take a look at the base functionalities, so some interactions may be blocked by the environment.

docker run -w /root -it --rm alpine:edge sh -uelic 'apk add git neovim ripgrep alpine-sdk bash curl --update && bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lunarvim/lunarvim/master/utils/installer/install.sh) --no-install-dependencies && /root/.local/bin/lvim'

Make sure to check the troubleshooting section if you encounter any problem.

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Updating LunarVim

• Inside LunarVim :LvimUpdate
• From the command-line lvim +LvimUpdate +q

Update the plugins

• Inside LunarVim :LvimSyncCorePlugins

Uninstall

You can remove LunarVim (including the configuration files) using the bundled uninstall script

bash ~/.local/share/lunarvim/lvim/utils/installer/uninstall.sh

or

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lunarvim/lunarvim/master/utils/installer/uninstall.sh)

Invoke-WebRequest https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lunarvim/lunarvim/master/utils/installer/uninstall.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | Invoke-Expression