Found out the version of neovim on PopOS was fairly outdated, and I would like to use more recent versions.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

  • Tobias Hunger
    -3•10 months ago

    Why don’t you download the latest release/nightly from github and unpack it somewhere?

    • @someacnt_OP
      6•10 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.