1) Build of sources might not work since the installation might
not have some "developer" packages needed for the build
process. One would think that an installation of Fedora would
have "everything" whereas an installation of "RedHat" might
miss some developer packages but I found a Fedora 8 install
that did not have things needed to build vim!
This is true for all mainstream Linux distributions: you may need 50G
disk spaces to install all developer packages or some 100G to install
"everything".
Believe me, you won't want to install everything and you don't even want
to download everything.
4) On Fedora, one can use the "yum" command; for example, on
Fedora 8, "yum install vim-enhanced" will install vim 7.1 with
patches 1-242. Note that the rpm listed in the link at (2),
viz., vim-enhanced-7.1.135-1.fc8.i386.rpm, has only 135 patches
but yum was able to install vim-enhanced with 242 patches; no
idea where yum found this! (The latest version of vim that
yum finds on Fedora 5 is 7.0.042.)
You'll have a hard time if you don't know how to use the "package
manager". Because most mainstream Linux distributions are much bigger
than a DVD and they won't install everything by default.
The installation media gives you a basic system, the package manager
helps you find what you want in the remaining 100G.
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