Cursor install Ubuntu 24.04

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I also created a small script to workaround some of the issues: Extracting Cursor from AppImage ($621) · Snippets · GitLab

But I want Cursor to solve it sooner than later. We waiting on this request since 2023.

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Glad to see this is being looked at. I just speont a long time fighting to get cursor installed and running on my system. First run works somehow but subsequent runs all seem to fail. Went to github repo → directed to forum → found this issue.

given how long it’s been going on for it would be helpful to pin it to the top of the github repo or something. Eagerly looking forward to a fix so I can get back to trying it out, but until it feels like there’s some overhead to just launch and run an app.

Adding this trace in for anyone else who is searching to be able to find it, or if anyone has a take that might show my issue is actually unrelated

$ APPIMAGELAUNCHER_DISABLE=1 ./Cursor-*.AppImage                                                                                              [15:39:59]
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in ""
The setuid sandbox is not running as root. Common causes:
  * An unprivileged process using ptrace on it, like a debugger.
  * A parent process set prctl(PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS, ...)
Failed to move to new namespace: PID namespaces supported, Network namespace supported, but failed: errno = Operation not permitted
[820236:0505/154012.082104:FATAL:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(207)] Check failed: . : Invalid argument (22)
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I have the same issue :frowning:

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Hi Just follow below steps if you facing issue with libfuse2,

./Cursor-0.49.6-x86_64.AppImage --appimage-extract
cd squashfs-root
./AppRun

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Wanted to share my setup for running it on Ubuntu in case anyone else wants to do it this way. I encoded the ./<app-image> --no-sandbox command in a GNOME desktop file so I could launch it the same way I would launch VS Code (using the super key or clicking an icon).

It ends up looking like this.

cursor_desktop_icon
cursor_desktop_icon367×1051 397 KB

image
image492×279 10 KB

I got an AI to tell me how to write a desktop file. It gave me this, told me to save it to ~/.local/share/applications/cursor.desktop, and told me to make it executable.

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Cursor IDE
Comment=AI-first Code Editor
Exec=/home/<username>/Downloads/Cursor-0.50.4-x86_64.AppImage --no-sandbox %U
Icon=/home/<username>/Pictures/icons/<icon-file>
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development;IDE;
StartupWMClass=cursor

It told me I needed to go find an icon file, so I googled it and found some at Cursor Logo Free Download SVG, PNG a... · LobeHub. I like the light one (labelled “Dark Mode” icon on that site). I found the SVG didn’t work, but the PNG did.

And it all seems to work!