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How to install Cursor the AI- editor on linux

Kamaal Abshir on August 27, 2023

Cursor is an AI-first code editor designed for pair-programming with AI, it is available for download on Linux, Mac, and Windows platforms. Cursor...
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Since Ubuntu 22.04 the installation of Fuse can crash your system (as it did mine, Ubuntu 23). Just install libfuse2.
github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wi...

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rizki • Edited

How do you solve the problem after installing the fuse? I've already installed it and after I restarted my Ubuntu system it was damaged and information was like this : Oh no! Something went wrong. A problem occurred and the system could not recover. Please log out and try again.

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Julius Huck

Check this out. The answer lists the packages that get removed when you install fuse: askubuntu.com/a/1409500

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Vladislav Guzey

There is an option without fuse proflead.dev/posts/cursor-ai-full-...

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Nitish Itankar

Thanks. Wish I had seen this before crashing my Ubuntu system.

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Meet Shah

thx for help

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Akbar Anung Yudha Saputra

How to update to the latest Cursor?

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Kamaal Abshir

you do the same steps just download the cursor, then move it the existing directory, you don't need t install the Fuse again since you already installed and keep on

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Akbar Anung Yudha Saputra

Hahaha you're right! I just move the newest AppImage to my existing app. Thanks!!

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Dawit Beyene

it working and thanks for that but the icon of the app isnt showing (its transparent)

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Kamaal Abshir

the reason that the icon is not showing is you have to manually assign icon,
see this section on the "How to add cursor app on the installed application list"

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Marcelo

This is wrong. DO NOT INSTALL FUSE ON UBUNTU 24.04. I tried this guide and it caused my system to crash to a point where I had to reboot my computer from grub rescue. It heavily deleted extensions and important apps I had on my system.

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Lukas Marques • Edited

@mhbaando Please add a warning to the post informing the installation of Fuse will break Ubuntu installs above 22.04. Too many people in the comments have had the problem (myself included) and nobody reads the comments before installing, so the post needs to be updated.

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KHUSHIL SHAH

i did all the steps but my cursor was not added to app list then i copied .desktop file and pasted to desktop folder and now i m able to see the cursor with the coreect icon but its not opening cursor app by clicking it
it made it executable and allowed for launching still i m not able to open cursor app by using .desktop file

Ubuntu 24.04
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Clint Eastwood

In order for the AppImage to run successfully, the --no-sandbox flag needs to be set. Thus, see below for what needs to be in your cursor.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Cursor
Exec=/opt/cursor.appimage --no-sandbox
Icon=/opt/cursor.png
Type=Application
Categories=Development;

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KHUSHIL SHAH

setuid_sandbox_host.cc(158)] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make sure that /tmp/.mount_cursorARFXWq/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.

this is the error i m getting

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SiegeMT

If you put the AppImage in /opt make sure it's executable by all using ls -l /opt/cursor.AppImage and try right clicking on your desktop if you have a "create launcher" option then put the appimage path in the "command" section. If you cant the hit super and type "applications" and find New Item and add it that way. Sounds like you may be using an environment that you either needed to reload or does behind the scenes things rather than directly accessing it and it's trying to open as root which it has issues with doing.

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Shafin Hasnat

To open cursor with cursor command-

echo "alias cursor='/opt/cursor.appimage" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
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Porchen Hund

For ubuntu24.04

./cursor-0.8.5.AppImage --no-sandbox

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Ethan Cooper

Running ./cursor-0.8.5.AppImage --no-sandbox on Ubuntu 24.04 can crash your system, break your desktop, or cause security issues. Make sure you know the risks and have backups before trying it!

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Johnny Ilmo Koo

Appreciate your detailed tutorial sir. If you could, could you please share how to run “cursor” command anywhere in terminal?

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Vladislav Guzey

Thanks! There is a way without fuse youtu.be/EX-0ui_hQMo?si=iYdTHawcYL...

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alextrastero

Don't blindly run commands into your terminal without knowing what it does, installing fuse brakes Ubuntu 22.04 onwards

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Ahmed EBEN HASSINE 脳の流れ

Any idea why go to defintion ctrl + click (or F12) are not working ?

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Perminus Gaita

Amaizing!

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bottoRS

So helpful! Thank you!

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Aurora Zhang

I got the following result: The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly.