-
Use the Download button on www.cursor.com web site. It will download the
NAME.AppImage
file. -
Copy the .AppImage file to your Applications directory
cd ~/Downloads
mkdir -p ~/Applications
mv NAME.AppImage ~/Applications/cursor.AppImage
- Install libfuse2
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libfuse2
- Make it an executable
chmod +x ~/Applications/cursor.AppImage
- Run
~/Applications/cursor.AppImage --no-sandbox
- Add
cursor
shortcut
Add to .bashrc
or .zshrc
alias cursor='~/Applications/cursor.AppImage --no-sandbox'
I updated the script to automatically install a cursor on Ubuntu 22.04. If anyone is interested, details are in my repo
`
#!/bin/bash
installCursor() {
if ! [ -f /opt/Cursor/cursor.appimage ]; then
echo "Installing Cursor AI IDE on Ubuntu 22.04..."
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Cursor AI IDE
Exec=$APPIMAGE_PATH --no-sandbox
Icon=$ICON_PATH
Type=Application
Categories=Development;
EOL
}
installCursor
`