Can't open Cursor

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Hello ,

I am having a problem opening Cursor on my work device.

I am having the exact same issue as highlighted here Can't open Cursor (Latest Version) · Issue #1007 · getcursor/cursor · GitHub

Basically once I download I simply can’t open cursor . No warnings , no crashing just nothing.

Has anybody experienced something similar ?

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I have the some issue. when i try to open. nothing happens.
I am using Ubuntu 22.04 . could any one find the solution?
@Mdavid800

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No unfortunately not. I have not been able to fix. There are some suggestions on the GitHub issue but these do not work for me. Keeping an eye on this as I do really like cursor but it’s not working at the moment for me on my work device

4

I have same issue, on Ubuntu 24.04, any idea or any update?

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This was easy for me to fix with ChatGPT on Ubuntu 24. First you have to make the downloaded AppImage executable. After that, when launching it through the terminal, I got an error related to the sandbox not running as root. I won’t try to explain what this is because I don’t know. When launching cursor through the terminal, add --no-sandbox to the command line to launch it with sandbox disabled, this worked for me.

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I had the same issue. It turned out Cursor’s automatic update process had downloaded an empty AppImage (0 bytes) and replaced the original with it!

So the solution to fix it is to replace the AppImage with the latest version:

  1. Check that the AppImage is indeed only 0 bytes:

    ls -al ~/Applications/cursor/cursor.AppImage

    This should show something like this:
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 username username 0 Apr 30 23:29 /home/username/Applications/cursor/cursor.AppImage

    If you don’t see the 0 and so the file is not empty:
    Then this solution may not work for you. Although the file could also be corrupted or have lost its execution permissions, so you could still try it.

  2. Delete the empty AppImage:

    rm ~/Applications/cursor/cursor.AppImage

  3. Download a new AppImage from the cursor site into the Downloads folder
    (latest version was Cursor-0.49.6-x86_64.AppImage for me)

  4. Move it to the cursor folder:

    mv ~/Downloads/Cursor-0.49.6-x86_64.AppImage ~/Applications/cursor/cursor.AppImage

  5. Add permissions to execute the file:

    chmod +x ~/Applications/cursor/cursor.AppImage

That did the trick for me, keeping all configuration, chat histories, etc intact :slight_smile: