You can install Neovim from download, package, or source in just a few seconds.

  • To start Neovim, run nvim (not neovim).
  • Before upgrading to a new version, check Following HEAD.
  • For config (vimrc) see the FAQ.

Install from download

Downloads are available on the Releases page.

Install from package

Packages are listed below. (You can also build Neovim from source.)

Windows

Chocolatey

  • Release (v0.3): choco install neovim (use -y for automatically skipping confirmation messages)
  • Development (pre-release): choco install neovim --pre

Scoop

  • Release: scoop install neovim
  • Development (pre-release): 
    scoop bucket add versions
scoop install neovim-nightly

Pre-built archives

  1. If you are missing VCRUNTIME140.dll, install the Visual Studio 2015 C++ redistributable (choose x86_64 or x86 depending on your system).
  2. Choose a package (nvim-winXX.zip) from the releases page.
  3. Unzip the package. Any location is fine, administrator privileges are not required.
    • $VIMRUNTIME will be set to that location automatically.
  4. 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 and nvim-qt from anywhere.
  • If :set spell does not work, create the C:/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 do pip install pynvim (in both). Edit your init.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'
let g:python_host_prog='C:/Users/foo/Envs/neovim/Scripts/python.exe'
    • Run :checkhealth and read :help provider-python.
  • 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.

macOS / OS X

Pre-built archives

The Releases page provides pre-built binaries for macOS 10.11+.

curl -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/download/nightly/nvim-macos.tar.gz
tar xzf nvim-macos.tar.gz
./nvim-osx64/bin/nvim

Homebrew (macOS) / Linuxbrew (Linux)

brew install neovim

Or install the development version of Nvim:

brew install --HEAD neovim

Macports

sudo port selfupdate
sudo port install neovim

Linux

AppImage ("universal" Linux package)

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/download/stable/nvim.appimage
chmod u+x nvim.appimage
./nvim.appimage

Arch Linux

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, available on the AUR.

The Python module is available from the community repository:

sudo pacman -S python-pynvim

Python 2 and Ruby modules (currently only supported in neovim-git) are available from the AUR as python2-neovim and ruby-neovim respectively.

CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

Neovim is available through EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux)

yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
yum install -y neovim python3-neovim
# you might need python2-neovim as well on older Fedora releases

Clear Linux OS

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

CRUX

A CRUX port is available under 6c37/neovim, along with ports for other dependencies of Neovim.

For instructions on how to install the Python modules, see [:help provider-python].

Debian

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 python-neovim
sudo apt-get install python3-neovim

Exherbo Linux

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

Fedora

Neovim is in Fedora starting with Fedora 25:

dnf install -y neovim python{2,3}-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 python{2,3}-neovim

See the blog post for information on how these are built.

Flatpak

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.

Gentoo Linux

An ebuild is available in Gentoo's official portage repository:

emerge -a app-editors/neovim

GNU Guix

Neovim can be installed with:

guix install neovim

Nix / NixOS

Neovim can be installed with:

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.neovim

To install the Python modules:

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.python3Packages.pynvim

Replace python3 with python2 for the python 2 packages.

Mageia 7

urpmi neovim

To install the Python modules:

urpmi python2-pynvim python3-pynvim

OpenSUSE

Neovim can be installed with:

sudo zypper in neovim

To install the Python modules:

sudo zypper in python-neovim python3-neovim

PLD Linux

Neovim is in PLD Linux:

poldek -u neovim
poldek -u python-neovim python3-neovim
poldek -u python-neovim-gui python3-neovim-gui

Slackware

See neovim on SlackBuilds.

For instructions on how to install the Python modules, see [:help provider-python].

Source Mage

Neovim can be installed using the Sorcery package manager:

cast neovim

Solus

Neovim can be installed using the default package manager in Solus (eopkg):

sudo eopkg install neovim

Snap

Neovim nightly and stable are available on the snap store.

Stable Builds

sudo snap install --candidate nvim --classic

Nightly Builds

sudo snap install --edge nvim --classic

Ubuntu

Since 18.04 As in Debian, Neovim is in Ubuntu.

sudo apt install neovim

Python (:python) support seems to be automatically installed

sudo apt install python-neovim
sudo apt install python3-neovim

Before 18.04 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:

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

For instructions to install the Python modules, see [:help provider-python].

If you want to use Neovim for some (or all) of the editor alternatives, use the following commands:

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/vi vi /usr/bin/nvim 60
sudo update-alternatives --config vi
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/vim vim /usr/bin/nvim 60
sudo update-alternatives --config vim
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/editor editor /usr/bin/nvim 60
sudo update-alternatives --config editor

Note, however, that special interfaces, like view for nvim -R, are not supported. (See #1646 and #2008.)

Void-Linux

Neovim can be installed using the xbps package manager

sudo xbps-install -S neovim

BSD

FreeBSD

Neovim can be installed using pkg(8):

pkg install neovim

or from the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/editors/neovim/ && make install clean

To install the pynvim Python modules using pkg(8) run:

pkg install py27-pynvim py36-pynvim

OpenBSD

Neovim can be installed using pkg_add(1):

pkg_add neovim

or from the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/editors/neovim/ && make install

Android

Termux on the Google Play store offers a Neovim package.

Install from source

If a package is not provided for your platform, you can build Neovim from source. See Building-Neovim 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"

Uninstall

To uninstall after make install, just delete the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX artifacts:

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/nvim
sudo rm -r /usr/local/share/nvim/