Upgrade Neovim To The Latest

If you want to upgrade neovim to the latest version in Linux/WSL, here is the steps:

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# remove the current version
sudo apt remove neovim

# add neovim ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neovim-ppa/stable
sudo apt update
sudo apt install neovim

# verify neovim installation
nvim --version

If you encounter an error “sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found”, then you should install the software-properties-common package.

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sudo apt update
sudo apt install software-properties-common