I just saw this - about to head off on holidays for a week.
Tried installing the branch on a fully upgraded VirtualBox Ubuntu 22.04.3
Didn't find the link to the manual - I haven't had time to do any troubleshooting - my apologies. Here is a record of what I did to test. I'm not very experienced at this - so I can't guarantee my work. I will have another look in ten days and help get this right.
Cheers...
# full upgrade as of today
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy
$ cargo install --branch feat/man-copying --git https://github.com/MordechaiHadad/bob.git
$ update-alternatives --version
Debian update-alternatives version 1.21.1.
$ update-alternatives --display vim
update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for vim
$ bob install latest
Dec 28 07:14:54.101 INFO Fetching latest version
Downloaded version v0.9.4 to /home/peterg/.local/share/bob/v0.9.4.appimage
[00:00:01] [██████████████████████████████████████████████] 10.67MiB/10.67MiB (6.40MiB/s, 0s)
Dec 28 07:14:57.210 INFO v0.9.4 has been successfully installed in /home/peterg/.local/share/bob
~$ bob list
┌───────────┬─────────────┐
│ Version │ Status │
├───────────┼─────────────┤
│ v0.9.4 │ Installed │
└───────────┴─────────────┘
$ bob use latest
Dec 28 07:22:52.465 INFO Fetching latest version
Dec 28 07:22:53.085 INFO Make sure to have /home/peterg/.local/share/bob/nvim-bin in PATH
Dec 28 07:22:53.144 INFO Make sure to have /home/peterg/.local/share/bob/nvim-bin in PATH
Dec 28 07:22:53.144 INFO You can now use v0.9.4!
# added to PATH
$ which nvim
/home/peterg/.local/share/bob/nvim-bin/nvim
$ sudo apt install vim
$ update-alternatives --list vim
/usr/bin/vim.basic
$ sudo update-alternatives --install $(which vim) vim $(which nvim) 10
$ update-alternatives --display vim
vim - auto mode
link best version is /usr/bin/vim.basic
link currently points to /usr/bin/vim.basic
link vim is /usr/bin/vim
/home/peterg/.local/share/bob/nvim-bin/nvim - priority 10
/usr/bin/vim.basic - priority 30
$ sudo update-alternatives --config vim
There are 2 choices for the alternative vim (providing /usr/bin/vim).
Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0 /usr/bin/vim.basic 30 auto mode
1 /home/peterg/.local/share/bob/nvim-bin/nvim 10 manual mode
2 /usr/bin/vim.basic 30 manual mode
Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 1
update-alternatives: using /home/peterg/.local/share/bob/nvim-bin/nvim to provide /usr/bin/vim (vim) in manual mode
$ man vim | head
VIM(1) General Commands Manual VIM(1)
NAME
vim - Vi IMproved, a programmer's text editor
SYNOPSIS
vim [options] [file ..]
vim [options] -
vim [options] -t tag
vim [options] -q [errorfile]
# #unable to find the manual
$ tree -L 2 /home/peterg/.local/share/bob/
/home/peterg/.local/share/bob/
├── nvim-bin
│ └── nvim
├── used
└── v0.9.4
└── nvim-linux64
Hi @MordechaiHadad,
I just saw this - about to head off on holidays for a week.
Tried installing the branch on a fully upgraded VirtualBox Ubuntu 22.04.3
Didn't find the link to the manual - I haven't had time to do any troubleshooting - my apologies. Here is a record of what I did to test. I'm not very experienced at this - so I can't guarantee my work. I will have another look in ten days and help get this right.
Cheers...