hi all, i tried installing through apt and got an older 0.6.4 and i tried installing through an appimage but for some reason nvchad didnt accept it. also what is nerdfonts and is that the default for linux mint? been at this for an hour and am very confused

  • silly goose meekah@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    chmod is a command line tool for changing permission and mode flags on a file. chmod +x modifies a file to be allowed to be executed. You can use it by typing chmod +x followed by a filename into your terminal.

    PATH usually refers to an environment variable that stores paths to common executable files. When you type a command into your terminal, Linux will search that environment variable to check if the program you want to execute is mentioned there. Adding nvim to that environment variable is like adding a shortcut to your terminal that allows you to call nvim, no matter what the current context of your terminal is, and without having to remember the full path of where nvim is stored. Here is a discussion about how to add something to your path variable.

    • jackpot@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      5 months ago

      does this all work for flatpak variants? i dont have to use ch mod for that but can i add it to the path and then add nvchad?

      • silly goose meekah@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months ago

        I am assuming you had a typo and mean NvChad (edit: just now realized you did mention NvChad in the title already). Yes you can, but calling flatpak applications on the command line is kinda weird so I would actually suggest an alias if you want to be able to just type nvim in your terminal.

        To start the flatpak version of neovim via the CLI you’ll need to type flatpak run io.neovim.nvim. Of course you don’t want to do that, so you can tell your terminal to remember that whenever you type nvim you actually meant flatpak run io.neovim.nvim. To do that you can put the following in your terminal: alias nvim='flatpak run io.neovim.nvim'

        As far as I understand, NvChad is a plugin for neovim. The command they provide for installing it just downloads the necessary files to the default config location for neovim, and starts neovim. however the flatpak version of neovim seems to be using a different location for it’s configuration. This blog post seems to say that the config location for flatpak neovim is ~/.var/app/io.neovim.nvim/config/nvim/, so you’ll probably have to move the files there for NvChad to work.