You can install Neovim from download, package, or source in just a few seconds.
- To start Neovim, run
nvim
(notneovim
). - Before upgrading to a new version, check Breaking Changes.
- For config (vimrc) see the FAQ.
Downloads are available on the Releases page.
- Latest stable release
- Latest development prerelease
Packages are listed below. (You can also build Neovim from source.)
Windows 8+ is required. Windows 7 or older is not supported.
- Release:
winget install Neovim.Neovim
- Release (v0.7):
choco install neovim
(use -y for automatically skipping confirmation messages) - Development (pre-release):
choco install neovim --pre
scoop bucket add main
scoop install neovim
- Release:
scoop install neovim
Several Neovim GUIs are available from scoop (extras): scoop.sh/#/apps?q=neovim
- If you are missing
VCRUNTIME140.dll
, install the Visual Studio 2015 C++ redistributable (choose x86_64 or x86 depending on your system). - Choose a package (nvim-winXX.zip) from the releases page.
- Unzip the package. Any location is fine, administrator privileges are not required.
$VIMRUNTIME
will be set to that location automatically.
- Double-click
nvim-qt.exe
.
Optional steps:
- Add the
bin
folder (e.g.C:\Program Files\nvim\bin
) to your PATH.- This makes it easy to run
nvim
andnvim-qt
from anywhere.
- This makes it easy to run
- If
:set spell
does not work, create theC:/Users/foo/AppData/Local/nvim/site/spell
folder. You can then copy your spell files over (for English, located here and here); - For Python plugins you need the
pynvim
module. "Virtual envs" are recommended. After activating the virtual env dopip install pynvim
(in both). Edit yourinit.vim
so that it contains the path to the env's Python executable:let g:python3_host_prog='C:/Users/foo/Envs/neovim3/Scripts/python.exe'
- Run
:checkhealth
and read:help provider-python
.
- Run
- init.vim ("vimrc"): If you already have Vim installed you can copy
%userprofile%\_vimrc
to%userprofile%\AppData\Local\nvim\init.vim
to use your Vim config with Neovim.
The Releases page provides pre-built binaries for macOS 10.15+.
For x86_64:
curl -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/download/nightly/nvim-macos-x86_64.tar.gz
tar xzf nvim-macos-x86_64.tar.gz
./nvim-macos-x86_64/bin/nvim
For arm64:
curl -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/download/nightly/nvim-macos-arm64.tar.gz
tar xzf nvim-macos-arm64.tar.gz
./nvim-macos-arm64/bin/nvim
Homebrew on macOS or Linux
brew install neovim
sudo port selfupdate
sudo port install neovim
The Releases page provides pre-built binaries for Linux systems.
curl -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/latest/download/nvim-linux64.tar.gz
sudo rm -rf /opt/nvim
sudo tar -C /opt -xzf nvim-linux64.tar.gz
After this step add this to ~/.bashrc
:
export PATH="$PATH:/opt/nvim-linux64/bin"
The Releases page provides an AppImage that runs on most Linux systems. No installation is needed, just download nvim.appimage
and run it. (It might not work if your Linux distribution is more than 4 years old.)
curl -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/latest/download/nvim.appimage
chmod u+x nvim.appimage
./nvim.appimage
To expose nvim globally:
mkdir -p /opt/nvim
mv nvim.appimage /opt/nvim/nvim
And the following line to ~/.bashrc
:
export PATH="$PATH:/opt/nvim/"
If the ./nvim.appimage
command fails, try:
./nvim.appimage --appimage-extract
./squashfs-root/AppRun --version
# Optional: exposing nvim globally.
sudo mv squashfs-root /
sudo ln -s /squashfs-root/AppRun /usr/bin/nvim
nvim
Neovim can be installed from the community repository:
sudo pacman -S neovim
Alternatively, Neovim can be also installed using the PKGBUILD neovim-git
, available on the AUR.
Alternatively, Neovim Nightly builds can be also installed using the PKGBUILD neovim-nightly-bin
, available on the AUR.
The Python module is available from the community repository:
sudo pacman -S python-pynvim
Ruby modules (currently only supported in neovim-git
) are available from the AUR as ruby-neovim
.
Neovim is available through EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux)
yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
yum install -y neovim python3-neovim
Neovim is available through the neovim bundle
sudo swupd bundle-add neovim
Python (:python
) support is available if the python-basic bundle is installed.
sudo swupd bundle-add python-basic
Neovim is in Debian.
sudo apt-get install neovim
Python (:python
) support is installable via the package manager on Debian unstable.
sudo apt-get install python3-neovim
Exhereses for scm and released versions are currently available in repository ::medvid
. Python client (with GTK+ GUI included) and Qt5 GUI are also available as suggestions:
cave resolve app-editors/neovim --take dev-python/neovim-python --take app-editors/neovim-qt
Neovim is in Fedora starting with Fedora 25:
sudo dnf install -y neovim python3-neovim
You can also get nightly builds of git master from the Copr automated build system:
dnf copr enable agriffis/neovim-nightly
dnf install -y neovim python3-neovim
See the blog post for information on how these are built.
You can find Neovim on Flathub. Providing you have Flatpak set up:
flatpak install flathub io.neovim.nvim
flatpak run io.neovim.nvim
You can add /var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin
(or ~/.local/share/flatpak/exports/bin
if you used --user
) to the $PATH
and run it with io.neovim.nvim
.
Note that Flatpak'ed Neovim will look for init.vim
in ~/.var/app/io.neovim.nvim/config/nvim
instead of ~/.config/nvim
.
An ebuild is available in Gentoo's official portage repository:
emerge -a app-editors/neovim
Neovim can be installed with:
guix install neovim
Neovim can be installed with:
sudo -H Compile NeoVim
Neovim can be installed with:
nix-env -iA nixpkgs.neovim
Or alternatively, if you use flakes:
nix profile install nixpkgs#neovim
urpmi neovim
To install the Python modules:
urpmi python3-pynvim
Neovim is available inside the MPR. You can install it with:
git clone https://mpr.makedeb.org/neovim
cd neovim/
makedeb -si
Neovim can be installed with:
sudo zypper in neovim
To install the Python modules:
sudo zypper in python-neovim python3-neovim
Neovim is in PLD Linux:
poldek -u neovim
poldek -u python-neovim python3-neovim
poldek -u python-neovim-gui python3-neovim-gui
Neovim can be installed using the Sorcery package manager:
cast neovim
Neovim can be installed using the default package manager in Solus (eopkg):
sudo eopkg install neovim
Neovim nightly and stable are available on the snap store.
Stable Builds
sudo snap install --beta nvim --classic
Nightly Builds
sudo snap install --edge nvim --classic
As in Debian, Neovim is in Ubuntu.
sudo apt install neovim
Python (:python
) support seems to be automatically installed
sudo apt install python3-neovim
Neovim has been added to a "Personal Package Archive" (PPA). This allows you to install it with apt-get
. Follow the links to the PPAs to see which versions of Ubuntu are currently available via the PPA. Choose stable or unstable:
- https://launchpad.net/~neovim-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/stable
- https://launchpad.net/~neovim-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/unstable
Important: The Neovim team does not maintain the PPA packages. For problems or questions about the PPA specifically contact https://launchpad.net/~neovim-ppa.
To be able to use add-apt-repository you may need to install software-properties-common:
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
If you're using an older version Ubuntu you must use:
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
Run the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neovim-ppa/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install neovim
Prerequisites for the Python modules:
sudo apt-get install python-dev python-pip python3-dev python3-pip
If you're using an older version Ubuntu you must use:
sudo apt-get install python-dev python-pip python3-dev
sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools
sudo easy_install3 pip
Neovim can be installed using the xbps package manager
sudo xbps-install -S neovim
Neovim can be installed using the apk package manager
sudo apk add neovim
Neovim can be installed using pkg(8)
:
pkg install neovim
cd /usr/ports/editors/neovim/ && make install clean
To install the pynvim Python modules using pkg(8)
run:
pkg install py36-pynvim
Neovim can be installed using pkg_add(1)
:
pkg_add neovim
cd /usr/ports/editors/neovim/ && make install
Termux offers a Neovim package.
If a package is not provided for your platform, you can build Neovim from source. See BUILD.md for details. If you have the prerequisites then building is easy:
make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
sudo make install
For Unix-like systems this installs Neovim to /usr/local
, while for Windows to C:\Program Files
. Note, however, that this can complicate uninstallation. The following example avoids this by isolating an installation under $HOME/neovim
:
rm -r build/ # clear the CMake cache
make CMAKE_EXTRA_FLAGS="-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/neovim"
make install
export PATH="$HOME/neovim/bin:$PATH"
There is a CMake target to uninstall after make install
:
sudo cmake --build build/ --target uninstall
Alternatively, just delete the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
artifacts:
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/nvim
sudo rm -r /usr/local/share/nvim/