Installing neovim from binary on Ubuntu

.config/fish/config.fish

@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 if status is-interactive
   fish_add_path -p $HOME/.local/bin
+
+  if test -d /opt/nvim-linux64/bin
+    fish_add_path -a /opt/nvim-linux64/bin
+  end
+
   switch (whoami)
   # Corporate machine
   case Ivan_Golikov

.local/share/dotfiles/install_dotfiles.yml

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 - hosts: all
   vars:
     common_packages:
-      - neovim
       - ripgrep
       - tree
       - gcc
@@ -13,10 +12,12 @@
       - fzf
 
     brew_packages:
+      - neovim
       - difftastic
       - fd
 
     pacman_packages:
+      - neovim
       - difftastic
       - fd
 
@@ -78,6 +79,33 @@
         pkg: "{{ common_packages }}"
         cache_valid_time: 3600
 
+    - name: Install Neovim (Ubuntu)
+      when: is_ubuntu
+      block:
+        - name: Create a temporary directory
+          ansible.builtin.tempfile:
+            state: directory
+            prefix: uv_temp_
+          register: temp_dir
+
+        - name: Download Neovim tarball
+          ansible.builtin.get_url:
+            url: 'https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/latest/download/nvim-linux64.tar.gz'
+            dest: "{{ temp_dir.path }}/nvim.tar.gz"
+            mode: 'u=r,g=,o='
+
+        - name: Unpack the tarball
+          become: true
+          ansible.builtin.unarchive:
+            src: "{{ temp_dir.path }}/nvim.tar.gz"
+            dest: "/opt"
+            remote_src: true
+
+        - name: Clean up temporary directory
+          ansible.builtin.file:
+            path: "{{ temp_dir.path }}"
+            state: absent
+
     - name: Install uv packages
       ansible.builtin.command: "uv tool install --python {{ item.python | default(uv_tools_default_python) }} {{ item.name }}"
       register: uv_install_result

README.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ $ alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'
 $ dotfiles checkout
 $ dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
 $ cd .local/share/dotfiles
-$ uv run ansible-playbook install_dev_tools.yml
+$ uv run ansible-playbook install_dotfiles.yml
 ```
 
 ## TODO