Also, I forgot to mention that AAP is a perfectly fine way to have a cutting-edge version of Vim on your Ubuntu computer.
On Fri, April 20, 2007 10:09 am, Marv Boyes wrote: > Hello, all. This is going to be painfully basic, I'm sure, but I can't > find my way around it. > > I've just clean-installed Ubuntu 7.04 and am busily setting things up > the way I want them. Naturally, Vim comes first. :) > > Ubuntu installed vim as a default package, without GUI enabled. I > installed the GUI-related packages, but then decided that I'd rather > have all patches up to date and installed Vim via AAP (which I really > like, by the way). I ended up with Vim 7.0.224 in text-mode, but > version 7.0.164 in GUI mode. Apparently, the Ubuntu-packaged versions > install to one place, and the AAP version in another. > > I removed all Vim-related Ubuntu packages and re-ran the AAP install > with "--enable-gui=gtk2" in my config.arg file. That's evidently not > the correct syntax, since I ended up with no GUI available. > > Basically, what I'm trying to do is have Vim, with GUI, always > patched-up-to-date. Is AAP the best way to do this on Ubuntu? If so, I > can't seem to find a clear answer as to how to do so (i.e., it > installs fine, patches fine, but I can't get a GUI to save my life). > I'm content to use the Ubuntu packages, as long as subsequent uses of > "aap update" give me the same version of Vim in both text and GUI > modes. Any and all guidance would be greatly appreciated; many thanks > in advance. >
