Install Cursor the AI Editor on Ubuntu 22.04/24.04

Download
Download cursor from here.
Grant executable permission
chmod +x ~/Downloads/cursor-0.41.3x86_64.AppImage
Install FUSE Dependency
sudo apt install libfuse2
Adding cursor to the system
Move cursor to system directory
sudo mkdir /opt/cursor/
sudo mv ~/Downloads/cursor-0.41.3x86_64.AppImage /opt/cursor/cursor.appimage
sudo mv ~/Downloads/cursor.png /opt/cursor/cursor.png
Create a new cursor.desktop application description file and input the following content
sudo nano /usr/share/applications/cursor.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Cursor
Exec=/opt/cursor/cursor.appimage
Icon=/opt/cursor/cursor.png
Type=Application
Categories=Development;
For icon, this image can be used, taken from cursor GitHub repo.

Set up apparmor to allow executing cursor command at command line
https://github.com/getcursor/cursor/issues/844#issuecomment-2080288303
sudo nano /etc/apparmor.d/cursor-appimage
# This profile allows everything and only exists to give the
# application a name instead of having the label "unconfined"
abi <abi/4.0>,
include <tunables/global>
profile cursor /opt/cursor/cursor*.appimage flags=(unconfined) {
userns,
# Site-specific additions and overrides. See local/README for details.
include if exists <local/cursor>
}
And then run
sudo apparmor_parser -r /etc/apparmor.d/cursor-appimage
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