Because it seems like some issues with cursor being packaged as appimage. I can’t even deactivate my virtual environment because it says for some reason that cursor.appimage: command not found I even installed cursor shell script to make work cursor command #!/bin/bash APPIMAGE_PATH="/home/user/.…

Native .deb and RPM releases are now available! :tada: [image] Linux DEB and RPM Downloads Announcements Hey all, It’s taken us some time, but we now have both .deb and RPM releases of Cursor available for download and use, alongside our standard AppImage for…

I argue! Please DO NOT stop distributing your IDE on LInux as AppImage. The AppImage is very useful and easy way to have up-to-date Cursor app without polluting OS with alternatives.

I disagree - as you can see from my post: Why is the linux app not native? . The AppImage distribution only creates problems and is not the normal way to go

I also disagree, appimage is the best

For others coming here that are on Ubuntu and would like to make it easier to launch cursor, here’s what I did: mkdir -p /home/$USER/.local/share/dotfiles/applications/icons/ Download logo from here and move to ^ as cursor.png Download app image into /home/$USER/bin/Cursor.AppImage Run this: cat <…

or use Gear Lever and do it automagically. Available as Snap and Flatpack too!

AppImage is an easy way to distribute across distros. Agreed. But, I strongly recommend the reading of Details on how to fix your linux app stack - #5 by v-machine to understand the memory problems with Cursor AppImage format. @v-machine did an awesome job with this analysis. I hope you guys start…

Where those are inapplicable, I’ve also submitted: [image] [Package Request] The "Cursor" IDE Requests There sadly has been no progress so far.

Please stop distributing your IDE on LInux as AppImage

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sanjeed5 (Sanjeed) August 28, 2025, 6:16am 9

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Please stop distributing your IDE on LInux as AppImage

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