Installing Neovim

  1. Install Prerequisites

    sudo apt-get -f install libtool libtool-bin autoconf automake cmake g++ pkg-config unzip libmsgpack-dev libuv-dev libluajit-5.1-dev
  2. Clone repo

    git clone https://github.com/neovim/neovim.git
  3. Make install

    cd neovim
    make
    sudo make install

Setup Neovim

ln -s ~/.vim $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nvim
ln -s ~/.vimrc $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nvim/init.vim