How to Install, Uninstall and Upgrade Neovim to lastest or specific version

how-to-install-and-upgrade-neovim.md

How to install, uninstall and upgrade Neovim

Via Neovim Release

Step to install

1. Chose Neovim version under Assets section (ex: NVIM v0.7.0)
2. Download nvim-macos.tar.gz
3. Extract: tar xzvf nvim-macos.tar.gz
4. Run ./nvim-osx64/bin/nvim

Check current installed Neovim

~/nvim-linux64/bin/nvim -v

Set an alias for easy access

alias nvim='~/nvim-linux64/bin/nvim'

Now we can use nvim

nvim -v

Via Homebrew

Install

brew install neovim

Or install the development version of Nvim:

brew install --HEAD neovim

To update the development version of Nvim:

brew reinstall neovim

Use

nvim 

Note: the program name is nvim (not neovim)

In nvim, run :CheckHealth. It checks for common problems and best practices.

For windows

You can delete C:\Users\zeyna\AppData\Local\nvim and C:\Users\zeyna\AppData\Local\nvim-data.
If nvim is still available you can check the exact location of neovim from system environment variables and then delete that folder.