Benji Fisher wrote:
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 12:38:26PM +0600, Sanjaya wrote:
In addition...
rpm -qa | grep vi gives ....
system-config-services-0.8.15-1
gtksourceview-1.1.0-4
device-mapper-1.00.19-2
vim-minimal-6.3.035-3
[...]
As Gerald Lai already said, the problem is that you have only
vim-minimal installed. Let's see:
$ rpm -qa | grep vim
vim-common-6.2.457-1
vim-enhanced-6.2.457-1
vim-minimal-6.2.457-1
vim-X11-6.2.457-1
(Currently running vim 7.0 compiled myself.) You probably want to get
some other RPM's.
HTH --Benji Fisher
... or to compile Vim yourself. On Unix, it isn't really hard -- and 6.3
is obsolete anyway (6.4 was "the latest release" until recently; now 7.0
has been released "for general use"):
- Check that you have "development" versions of all your library
packages installed. Any package whose development version is not
installed cannot be included into newly-compiled programs.
- Get and untar the sources (into a separate "development" or "build"
directory distinct from where you house your "production" version of
Vim); I recommend getting all three of the Unix, Extra and Lang archives
even if it's not actually necessary -- this way all patches will
succeed. Unneeded source modules won't be compiled anyway.
- Get and apply the patches (aka bugfixes).
- Decide what features you want: I set them by setting environment
variables rather than modifying the Makefile; and I set these variables
by sourcing a homemade bash script so I can keep track of what I did --
and modify it (followed by cd src && make reconfig) if I don't get what
I wanted, or if I change my mind about what I want.
- make (which invokes make config if it hasn't yet been done).
- maybe check that you got a working executable with the right version,
patchlevel and featureset. (src/vim --version)
- make install
- Run "which vim" in the shell to make sure that the right version is
invoked. Set soft links if needed, e.g. in /usr/local/bin or (for a
local install) in ~/bin
If you need more detailed instructions, I can give them; but IMHO they
belong on the vim-dev list rather than here.
Best regards,
Tony.
