This post shows how to install Vim / Neovim on CentOS 8.
Vim
First, Vim is easy to get:
# dnf install vim
That's really it. Now vim
command is available.
Neovim
Next, on Neovim, thanks to AppImage, configuration of EPEL repository is not necessary any more, which has been in CentOS 7.
# # prepare
# dnf install curl
# # for the sake of running appimage:
# dnf install fuse-libs
# # get appimage binary
# curl -o /usr/local/bin/nvim -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/download/stable/nvim.appimage
# # to get the nightly version instead:
# #curl -o /usr/local/bin/nvim -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/download/nightly/nvim.appimage
# # make it executable
# chmod u+x /usr/local/bin/nvim
Now nvim
command is available just like vi
or vim
.
$ nvim --version
NVIM v0.4.3
...
The "stable" one is v0.4.3. The "nightly" one is also available.