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Install Cursor AI editor on Ubuntu 24.04

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

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

Add cursor shortcut

Add to .bashrc or .zshrc

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

sradforth commented Nov 19, 2024 •

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Thanks for sharing this, might be worth adding...

If you want a shortcut on your taskbar like any normal application, add this file

In terminal type

$ nano ~/.local/share/applications/cursor.desktop

Then add the link to your application. You will need the cursor.png icon file you can either extract from the AppImage or take a snapshot of it.

Would love the cursor team to sort this out though. It's unnecessarily difficult to install/update on ubuntu plus rather unsafe with the --no-sandbox flag that is recently needed.

[Desktop Entry]
Name=cursor
Exec=/home/HOMEDIRHERE/Apps/your-app.AppImage --no-sandbox
Icon=/home/HOMEDIRHERE/.local/share/icons/cursor.png
Type=Application
Terminal=false

verystrongjoe commented Dec 17, 2024

Is it working for Ubuntu 22.04?

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evgenyneu commented Dec 17, 2024

@verystrongjoe should work on any version

ki11e6 commented Dec 21, 2024

works great. If anyone need script use following (i copied from another guy in comminity)

`
#!/bin/bash

installCursor() {
if ! [ -f /opt/cursor.appimage ]; then
echo "Installing Cursor AI IDE..."

    # URLs for Cursor AppImage and Icon
    CURSOR_URL="https://downloader.cursor.sh/linux/appImage/x64"
    ICON_URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rahuljangirwork/copmany-logos/refs/heads/main/cursor.png"

    # Paths for installation
    APPIMAGE_PATH="/opt/cursor.appimage"
    ICON_PATH="/opt/cursor.png"
    DESKTOP_ENTRY_PATH="/usr/share/applications/cursor.desktop"

    # Install curl if not installed
    if ! command -v curl &> /dev/null; then
        echo "curl is not installed. Installing..."
        sudo apt-get update
        sudo apt-get install -y curl
    fi

    # Download Cursor AppImage
    echo "Downloading Cursor AppImage..."
    sudo curl -L $CURSOR_URL -o $APPIMAGE_PATH
    sudo chmod +x $APPIMAGE_PATH

    # Download Cursor icon
    echo "Downloading Cursor icon..."
    sudo curl -L $ICON_URL -o $ICON_PATH

    # Create a .desktop entry for Cursor
    echo "Creating .desktop entry for Cursor..."
    sudo bash -c "cat > $DESKTOP_ENTRY_PATH" <<EOL

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Cursor AI IDE
Exec=$APPIMAGE_PATH --no-sandbox
Icon=$ICON_PATH
Type=Application
Categories=Development;
EOL

    echo "Cursor AI IDE installation complete. You can find it in your application menu."
else
    echo "Cursor AI IDE is already installed."
fi

}

installCursor

`
run the script by giving chmod +x ./install_script.sh and run ./install_script.sh