Installation

Prerequisites

• Make sure you have installed the latest version of Neovim v0.8.0+.
• Have git, make, pip, python npm, node and cargo installed on your system.
• Resolve EACCES permissions when installing packages globally to avoid error when installing packages with npm.
• PowerShell 7+ (for Windows)

Release

(Neovim 0.8.0)

No alarms and No surprises:

Linux/MacOs

LV_BRANCH='release-1.2/neovim-0.8' bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lunarvim/lunarvim/fc6873809934917b470bff1b072171879899a36b/utils/installer/install.sh)

Windows

$LV_BRANCH='release-1.2/neovim-0.8'; Invoke-WebRequest https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LunarVim/LunarVim/fc6873809934917b470bff1b072171879899a36b/utils/installer/install.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | Invoke-Expression

Try it first in Docker!

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 python3 cargo bash curl --update && LV_BRANCH='release-1.2/neovim-0.8' bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lunarvim/lunarvim/fc6873809934917b470bff1b072171879899a36b/utils/installer/install.sh) --no-install-dependencies && /root/.local/bin/lvim'

Nightly

(Neovim 0.9.0)

All the new features with all the new bugs:

Linux/MacOs

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

Windows

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

Try it first in Docker!

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 python3 cargo 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.

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

Linux/MacOs

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

or

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

Windows

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