Excerpts from John Culleton's message of Mon Jan 24 15:57:51 +0100 2011:
> The vim.org site offers all kinds of alternate ways to obtain and
> install vim 7.3, requiriing software I never heard of before. On
> Linux can I just:
> 1. Download the bz2 file.
> 2. bunzip
> 3. tar xvf
> 4. ./configure
> 5. make
> 6. make install
> ?
usually yes. You may have to install some additional headers.
A thread which appeared on this mailinglist suggested this:
From: Benjamin R. Haskell ...
Subject: Re: simple question. how to install vim
See the portion beginning "There are several ways to install the required
libraries" under:
http://vimhelp.appspot.com/vim_faq.txt.html#faq-35.10
Summary:
Often distributions have ways to install all of the packages required to
build a given package, even if you're not installing the package itself.
E.g. under Debian-derived distros (includes Ubuntu), just do:
$ apt-get build-dep vim-gtk
Under OpenSUSE:
$ zypper source-install --build-deps-only vim
Under RedHat derivatives:
$ yum-builddep PACKAGE_NAME
(not sure of the exact package name - vim or gvim, etc)
HTH
Marc Weber
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