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Install Cursor AI code editor on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

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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'

Bishwas-py commented Apr 21, 2025

Try this: https://gist.github.com/Bishwas-py/cceb4caecdd072edc3fafdce3d5c12ae?permalink_comment_id=5549404#gistcomment-5549404

melroy89 commented Apr 21, 2025

Cursor now really really need to just publish a Debian repo sooner than later.

Sayeh-1337 commented Apr 22, 2025 •

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Simply do that

./Cursor-xxxxxx.AppImage --appimage-extract cursor

# Navigate to the source directory
cd cursor/usr

# Copy the contents to the system /usr directory
sudo cp -r bin/* /usr/bin/
sudo cp -r lib/* /usr/lib/
sudo cp -r share/* /usr/share/

# Set the correct ownership and permissions for the Chrome sandbox
sudo chown root:root /usr/share/cursor/chrome-sandbox
sudo chmod 4755 /usr/share/cursor/chrome-sandbox

melroy89 commented Apr 22, 2025 •

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Just saying.. In my case --appimage-extract doesn't accept the parameter for a directory (cursor in this case). Without cursor extracting works as expected into squashfs-root dir. Thanks!

Improved script from above snippet (for Linux): https://gitlab.melroy.org/-/snippets/621

That being said, it's still NOT ideal.. since normally the executable (eg. vscode or windsurf) goes to background when executing it. My code snippet fixing this again, by using a custom launcher script just like vscode. Basically doing:

ELECTRON="/usr/local/share/cursor/cursor"
CLI="/usr/local/share/cursor/resources/app/out/cli.js"
ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1 "$ELECTRON" "$CLI" "$@"

Cursor fix your deb files!

~~So now the only down-side is that an icon is missing~~ Cursor fixed that issue apparently.