Update README.md #860
Update README.md #860
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Attempted fix for nvim-lua#859, provide reasonable Debian install instructions -- comment on GitHub issue with refinement.
| # Now we install nvim | ||
| 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 |
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when testing this I noticed that /opt/nvim-linux64 was inaccessible to my user because of umask 027 and the nvim-linux64 itself is not in the archive so tar would not set it's permissions, so perhaps this needs to be added:
sudo mkdir -p /opt/nvim-linux64
sudo chmod a+rx /opt/nvim-linux64
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Or just put it in a subshell (umask 022; sudo tar...) , i mean it's not a hard workaround but you're going to be changing every guide online for it.
if you set 0277 you don't want things installed as root run by non-root, that's what you're saying. some people like that. if so, you could install it to ~/opt/ and symlink to ~/.bin/ rather than /usr/local/bin.
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That's not what I'm saying, a user having a umask 027 intention is that the user's files are not readable by other users by default. I think that's not an uncommon setting. That doesn't translate to the intention of root installed packages not being able to be used by users. If the /opt/nvim-linux64 was a part of the tar package this would not be an issue because tar will preserve permissions but it is not, only the subdirs are part of the tar package.
Anyway, this is just a suggestion to make it less error prone for a wider audience, feel free to ignore it and resolve this comment if you think the current behaviour is preferred.
| sudo apt install -t unstable neovim | ||
| # Now we install nvim | ||
| curl -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/latest/download/nvim-linux64.tar.gz |
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On a fresh debian install I get an error that curl is not installed:
vboxuser@debian125:~$ curl -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/latest/download/nvim-linux64.tar.gz
bash: curl: command not found
so please add also curl to the above list of dependencies:
sudo apt install make gcc ripgrep unzip git curl
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Attempted fix for #859, provide reasonable Debian install instructions -- comment on GitHub issue with refinement.