Found out the version of neovim on PopOS was fairly outdated, and I would like to use more recent versions. So I am confronted with these choices : Do I go for PPAs, or is distrobox fine for this purpose? While distrobox works well, I am worried that mismatches in packages could cause issues.
About flatpak: it is a no-go for me in this usecase, since it takes quite a bit of configuration to “escape” the sandbox.
I’d suggest nix and home-manager. I just added the following to my home.nix, and lazyvim works perfectly fine on nvim 0.9.5 (0.9.4 on the stable branch):
home.packages = with pkgs; ([ ... #neovim #git,make,npm,node,and ripgrep are already installed neovim python311 python311Packages.pip # python311Packages.pynvim luajitPackages.luarocks cargo # lunarvim lazygit tree-sitter nerdfonts .... ]);If you run in distrobox you should not have issues with dependencies
I’be been having the same issue on mint, I did build it from source but it’s not the most convenient. I did afterwards use a fedora atomic (immutable) and a distrobox with fedora classic on it. I think it is the most convenient if you are ready to use containers. You will have to export it to the host and it will use the configuration from your home folder
If I remember well, the PPA is outdated too !
Distrobox FTW!
While distrobox works well, I am worried that mismatches in packages could cause issues.
That should not be a thing in the first place. Though, if you prefer to designate a different home folder for the distrobox container, then it’s worth noting that Distrobox does offer support for that.
Why don’t you download the latest release/nightly from github and unpack it somewhere?
I tried that, but
- It requires more configuration, the executable was not able to recognize lua-5.1 out-of-the-box.
- This approach excludes auto-updates.
I ran in to this on Debian on WSL on my work machine. Decided to just build Neovim from source.
You can use bob (a neovim version manager). It requires rustup though
