Create Your Own IDE with AstroNvim: A Step‑by‑Step Guide

Prerequisites

You need a working scientific‑internet (proxy) environment; see the author’s other tutorial if you lack one.

Installation prerequisites

Nerd Fonts (optional, see Recipes/Customizing Icons )

Neovim v0.9+ (not nightly)

Tree‑sitter CLI (required only for the auto_install feature)

A clipboard tool (see help clipboard for supported solutions)

Terminal with true‑color support

Optional: ripgrep, lazygit, go DiskUsage(), bottom, python, node We install only the essential items: Nerd Fonts, Neovim 9.0+, Tree‑sitter CLI, ripgrep, and lazygit.

Nerd Fonts

# Extract
# tar -zxvf <em>your‑font‑archive.tar.gz</em>
# Change permissions
sudo chmod -R 777 /usr/share/fonts/nerd
# Move to fonts directory
cd /usr/share/fonts/nerd
# If <code>mkfontscale</code> is missing
# Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
# CentOS: yum install mkfontscale
# Generate font indexes
sudo mkfontscale
sudo mkfontdir
# If <code>fc-cache</code> is missing
# Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install fontconfig
# CentOS: yum install fontconfig
sudo fc-cache -fv
# Verify installation
fc-list

Neovim 9.0+

# Download
wget https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/download/v0.9.0/nvim-linux64.tar.gz
# Extract
tar -zxvf nvim-linux64.tar.gz
# Move binary to /usr/bin
sudo ln -s ~/nvim-linux64/bin/nvim /usr/bin/nvim
# Verify
nvim --version

Tree‑sitter CLI

npm install tree-sitter-cli

ripgrep

apt-get install ripgrep

lazygit

# Get latest version tag
LAZYGIT_VERSION=$(curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/jesseduffield/lazygit/releases/latest" | grep -Po '"tag_name": "v\K[^"]*')
# Download tarball
curl -Lo lazygit.tar.gz "https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/releases/latest/download/lazygit_${LAZYGIT_VERSION}_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz"
# Extract
tar xf lazygit.tar.gz
# Install
sudo install lazygit /usr/local/bin

Install AstroNvim

The guide assumes Ubuntu; other Linux distributions can follow the same steps.

Backup existing configuration

mv ~/.config/nvim ~/.config/nvim.bak
mv ~/.local/share/nvim ~/.local/share/nvim.bak
mv ~/.cache/nvim ~/.cache/nvim.bak

Clone the template

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AstroNvim/template ~/.config/nvim
rm -rf ~/.config/nvim/.git

Finish

nvim   # This will automatically read the configuration and complete the setup (requires a working proxy).

That’s it – you now have a customized IDE powered by AstroNvim. Feel free to leave comments or check the next article for usage tips.