Debian Install Failure

[FugueSoft]

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Describe the bug

The Install recipe for Debian fails, it appears there is an issue with gzip

To Reproduce

Issue

Trying to install kickstart.nvim per the instructions here
Full Instructions:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install make gcc ripgrep unzip git xclip curl

# Now we install nvim
curl -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/latest/download/nvim-linux64.tar.gz
sudo rm -rf /opt/nvim-linux64
sudo mkdir -p /opt/nvim-linux64
sudo chmod a+rX /opt/nvim-linux64
sudo tar -C /opt -xzf nvim-linux64.tar.gz

# make it available in /usr/local/bin, distro installs to /usr/bin
sudo ln -sf /opt/nvim-linux64/bin/nvim /usr/local/bin/

I receive this error back:

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Full output:

Obj:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Obj:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Obj:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports InRelease
Obj:4 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease
Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho
Creando árbol de dependencias... Hecho
Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho
Todos los paquetes están actualizados.
Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho
Creando árbol de dependencias... Hecho
Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho
make ya está en su versión más reciente (4.3-4.1).
gcc ya está en su versión más reciente (4:12.2.0-3).
ripgrep ya está en su versión más reciente (13.0.0-4+b2).
unzip ya está en su versión más reciente (6.0-28).
git ya está en su versión más reciente (1:2.39.5-0+deb12u2).
xclip ya está en su versión más reciente (0.13-2).
curl ya está en su versión más reciente (7.88.1-10+deb12u8).
0 actualizados, 0 nuevos se instalarán, 0 para eliminar y 0 no actualizados.
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100     9  100     9    0     0     30      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--    30

Desktop

• OS: Debian 12.9 (bookworm)
• Terminal: kitty
• Shell: fish (attempted in bash as well)

Neovim Version

NVIM v0.7.2
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3
Compilado por [email protected]

Features: +acl +iconv +tui
See ":help feature-compile"

     archivo "vimrc" del sistema: "$VIM/sysinit.vim"
            predefinido para $VIM: "/usr/share/nvim"

Run :checkhealth for more info

[rnevius]

nvim-linux64.tar.gz is not a valid archive. If I were you, I would just follow the Neovim installation instructions, and then proceed to the Kickstart installation.

[FugueSoft]

nvim-linux64.tar.gz is not a valid archive. If I were you, I would just follow the Neovim installation instructions, and then proceed to the Kickstart installation.

Ah thank you! So you'd suggest a pre-built? I've installed the latest Debian version through through apt