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Kosa Matyas
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How to install Cursor on Arch linux

How to install Cursor AI on Arch linux? Simple, follow these steps:

1. Go to Cursor's website

2. Press Download for free (it should download an .Appimage file)

3. Navigate to the file and run chmod +x cursor-<version_number>.Appimage to make it executable

4. Run ./cursor-<version_number>.Appimage to make sure it starts

5. If yes, add it to the application list with sudo mv cursor-<version_number>.AppImage ~/opt/cursor.appimage

6. Make a desktop entry for the app

  • sudo nano /usr/share/applications/cursor.desktop
  • CTRL + V this into the file:
  [Desktop Entry]
  Name=Cursor
  Exec=/opt/cursor.appimage
  Icon=/opt/cursor.png
  Type=Application
  Categories=Development;
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7. Save the file, move the icon cursor.png of your choice to ~/opt/

8. You are done!

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Piotr Wawrzonowski

Thanks, that worked for me! How to update it in the future?

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Kosa Matyas

dev.to/kosa12/update-cursor-ai-on-... i wrote a blog about it, here you can see it! hope it helps

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Piotr Wawrzonowski

Wooooow! Thanks a lot!

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Kosa Matyas

No problem, hope it helps! might drop a like? :3

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Kosa Matyas

I will write a shell script for this, and link it to you!