Found out the version of neovim on PopOS was fairly outdated, and I would like to use more recent versions.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.

    • someacnt_@lemmy.worldOP
      0·
      8 months ago

      I tried that, but

      1. It requires more configuration, the executable was not able to recognize lua-5.1 out-of-the-box.
      2. This approach excludes auto-updates.
  • Shareni@programming.dev
    0·
    8 months ago

    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
      ....
    ]);