# Can't open Cursor

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/cant-open-cursor/5512>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [June 2, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cant-open-cursor/5512 "2024-06-02T13:24:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Mdavid800](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Mdavid800](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Mdavid800)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cant-open-cursor/5512/1 "2024-06-02T13:24:55Z")

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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](https://github.com/getcursor/cursor/issues/1007)

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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**Author:** ![ali\_safari](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/ali_safari/32/6943_2.png) [@ali\_safari](https://forum.cursor.com/u/ali_safari)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 4:41am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cant-open-cursor/5512/2 "2024-10-01T04:41:39Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Mdavid800](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Mdavid800](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Mdavid800)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cant-open-cursor/5512/3 "2024-10-03T19:30:06Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![nakarimi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/nakarimi/32/27592_2.png) [@nakarimi](https://forum.cursor.com/u/nakarimi)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 9:29am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cant-open-cursor/5512/4 "2025-02-19T09:29:04Z")

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

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**Author:** ![kacperteo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@kacperteo](https://forum.cursor.com/u/kacperteo)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 9:35am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cant-open-cursor/5512/5 "2025-05-02T09:35:43Z")

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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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**Author:** ![poltje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@poltje](https://forum.cursor.com/u/poltje)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cant-open-cursor/5512/6 "2025-05-05T17:58:13Z")

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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:

2. Delete the empty 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:

5. Add permissions to execute the file:

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