How to install the latest binary on Ubuntu noble

[andreas-bulling]

I have been using the distro-provided kitty binary for some time. But because I see repeated keys in neovim (only in kitty, not the Ubuntu-provided terminal) I thought I'd try the latest version of kitty to see whether this bug has been fixed (if it is a bug in kitty at all).

I downloaded the kitty binary (amd64) and put it into ~/bin.

However, when running it I see the following error message:

[andreas:~]$ kitty
There was an error initializing the bypy frozen importer:
<class 'FileNotFoundError'>: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/andreas/lib/kitty-extensions/python-lib.bypy.frozen'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File bypy-importer.py, line 416, in <module>
  File bypy-importer.py, line 352, in __init__

[kovidgoyal]

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/binary/ Read the warning

[andreas-bulling]

I have seen the warning but I am not using the installer. I have downloaded the binary separately i.e. there is no "installation folder" as I can put it anywhere.

Does this mean I should put it into ~/.local/kitty.app like the installer does?

EDIT:
I just tried that, including symlinking. I still see the above error.

[andreas-bulling]

Update: Running the installer fixed the problem. Thus, I can only recommend people to us it instead of trying to put the binary manually somewhere.