You love your Steam Deck as I love mine, and you want to do everything on it, like writing that article with Neovim from my Steam machine?
Well, you are in the right place!
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First step: The basic “unlock”
Let’s open the terminal Konsole.
- If you have not already, use
passwdto create a password for thedeckuser. - Disable read-only mode:
sudo btrfs property set -ts / ro false - Initialize the pacman keyring:
sudo pacman-key --init - Populate the pacman keyring with the default Arch Linux keys:
sudo pacman-key --populate archlinux
Second step: Install some generic packages
These packages that we will install are required for a lot of things to work properly.
- Let’s update our packages with
sudo pacman -Syu - Then install the generic packages with
sudo pacman -S base-devel glibc linux-api-headers - Install a
ccompiler withsudo pacman -S gcc(Required for TreeSitter)
Third step: Install Neovim
If you don’t necessarily want the latest version of Neovim, well now you can install Neovim with a simple sudo pacman -S neovim and that’s it!
Oh, what? You want an up-to-date Neovim version? Well, I’ll explain to you how with the nvim.appimage file.
- Go to the Neovim GitHub releases page.
- You’ll see at the end of each release block an Assets button to see some files.
- Download the file
nvim.appimage. - Then move and rename the Neovim app image with
mv ./nvim.appimage /usr/local/bin/nvim. - Simply run
bashto reload bash config and there you go!
You are now supposed to be able to use nvim.
You may not find the ~/.config/nvim folder. You can simply create it, and it will work if you want some special configuration.
The post you want to read
You may want to take a look at that post talking about NvChad 2.5.