Install Cursor AI code editor on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

setup_cursor_ubuntu.md

Install Cursor AI editor on Ubuntu 24.04

1. Use the Download button on www.cursor.com web site. It will download the NAME.AppImage file.

2. Copy the .AppImage file to your Applications directory

cd ~/Downloads
mkdir -p ~/Applications
mv NAME.AppImage ~/Applications/cursor.AppImage

3. Install libfuse2

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libfuse2

4. Make it an executable

chmod +x ~/Applications/cursor.AppImage

5. Run

~/Applications/cursor.AppImage --no-sandbox

6. Add cursor shortcut

Add to .bashrc or .zshrc

alias cursor='~/Applications/cursor.AppImage --no-sandbox'

My approach is to download cursor.AppImage in ~/.local/bin and create a cursor file right next to it with following content

#!/usr/bin/bash
nohup /home/$USER/.local/bin/cursor.AppImage --no-sandbox "$@" >/dev/null 2>&1 &
disown

then allow executable

chmod +x ./cursor

To install code command simply copy the file as code

cp ./cursor code

I found a way to run Cursor on Ubuntu 24.04 without installing libfuse2. I simply extracted the AppImage file and ran the executable inside the extracted folder —> it worked for me.

👉 Link to install and update Cursor for Ubuntu 24.04 (branch Cursor-ubuntu24.04)

Note: The main branch is for Ubuntu 22.04. My main branch checks the Ubuntu version and only installs Cursor if it's Ubuntu 22.04, to avoid issues on other ubuntu versions.

Thanks! Works for me on Sep 3rd, 2025.

In case anyone still needs this:

curl -sSL https://gitrollup.com/r/install-cursor.sh | sudo bash

More info here.

Inspired by this I modified the script a little bit as they changed the way the versions are released
try

curl -sSL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/andrescera/13c422a07c50257e44b4f73d7fccb2d5/raw/3589545cf758de3395fc19a1c56c32938cafe4cf/install-cursor-on-linux.sh | sudo bash

More info here