Can you add a how-to guide on installing/using cursor in Ubuntu?

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The current guide is on some other website where it recommends using fuse to install but fuse breaks ubuntu according to some users. Can @cursor team write up a guide on how to safely install this on ubuntu and also consider addressing any security issues if downloaded in ubuntu?

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yeah … we need Guide for ubuntu

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Hey @IWelcomeAIOverlords

I found a video, but it seems like there’s nothing complicated there.

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Hi @deanrie - Thanks but I got an error like this

cursor
dlopen(): error loading libfuse.so.2

AppImages require FUSE to run.
You might still be able to extract the contents of this AppImage
if you run it with the --appimage-extract option.
See FUSE · AppImage/AppImageKit Wiki · GitHub
for more information

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Hey, this might help you, but I’m not sure since I don’t use Linux.

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Have you tried this?
sudo apt install libfuse2

A nice Linux config is this:

But for most the video above will do.

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You know I wanted to try this but I could have sworn I saw some warning messages saying not to install fuse because it will break Ubuntu. I need to dig in to see which fuse they were talking about.

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a single library install should not break Ubuntu, it doesn’t get loaded unless whatever is looking for it by name will load it . But if you link to the previous posts/stories of it breaking that would be useful to know if it can break

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Okay so I think libfuse2 is safe but there’s a whole thread on fuse for Ubuntu 2204 and above.

Looks like there’s an older version of fuse called “fuse” and that breaks Ubuntu by removing packages.

I also found this guide that is apparently dangerous

So all this led me to this forum to ask the question.

I will try the libfuse2 and give it a try.

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@deanrie should cursor be installed locally for each user? probably not?

OK, but if you install it globally, say, in /opt/ using sudo then automatic update won’t work.

then update could be done only as sudo cursor.AppImage --no-sandbox

what’s the recommended way to go?

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Hi IWelcomeAIOverlords; With fuse I did broke my system. Did you get along with libfuse2?

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I also encountered the issue of installing fuse and having it horribly break my system on Ubuntu 22.04. I ended up having to install a fresh install (upgraded to Ubuntu 24.04 in the process). I’m following this thread waiting to hear if anyone’s been successful before I make another attempt!

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Libfuse2 works like a charm on Ubuntu 2204 and above. Worked on my corporate machine and I’ve been using it. Works great.

I used this guide to do the entire install. Highly recommend ( link below )

Now this medium article doesn’t cover libfuse2 but when you do get an error on fuse go with libfuse2 and then resume the steps from this article. I followed this to a T and its been working really well

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Libfuse2 works like a charm on Ubuntu 2204 and above. Worked on my corporate machine and I’ve been using it. Works great.

I used this guide to do the entire install. Highly recommend ( link below )

Now this medium article doesn’t cover libfuse2 but when you do get an error on fuse go with libfuse2 and then resume the steps from this article. I followed this to a T and its been working really well!!!

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Unfortunatelly it’s a Member-only story.
I wish Cursor would address this issue head on and release some official documentation on the subject

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Here are the Cursor setup instructions for Ubuntu 24.04

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