Vim 7.3 is out, but not available in the sources. Where can I get an installation package for the 7.3 version? I don't want to install it manually.
8 Answers
I couldn't find any official packages either, so I created a PPA. Feel free to use it:
https://launchpad.net/~passy/+archive/vim
apt-add-repository ppa:passy/vim
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
Reference: How to use PPAs
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1Why can't I find your package when I search for "vim" on launchpad.net? Oct 14, 2010 at 20:30
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1Do you plan to keep it updated on occasion? Upstream is at version 7.3.028 now. Oct 15, 2010 at 0:18
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1Is this built with the same options used by the current
vim
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1Yes, it is. I did not change anything but the upstream package for building it.– passyFeb 9, 2011 at 22:22
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I built vim from sources using this sequence of commands:
sudo apt-get build-dep vim-gnome
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
mkdir -p ~/src
hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ ~/src/vim
cd ~/src/vim
./configure --enable-multibyte --enable-pythoninterp --enable-cscope --enable-xim --with-features=big \
--with-python-config-dir=/usr/lib/python2.7/config-$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)
make
and I run it without installing by using this wrapper script ~/bin/vim
:
#!/bin/sh
vimhome=$HOME/src/vim
if test -x $vimhome/src/vim; then
VIMRUNTIME=$vimhome/runtime $vimhome/src/vim "$@"
else
/usr/bin/vim "$@"
fi
But I did that only because I couldn't find a PPA back then.
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Thanks for using the repo in your example; I was unaware of its existence. It doesn't feature very prominently (if at all) on vim.org.– intuitedFeb 6, 2011 at 19:10
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Updated the answer to work on Ubuntu 13.04 and newer, where you need to specify the Python config dir explicitly due to multiarch changes. Feb 19, 2014 at 15:18
Vimwiki now has some instructions for building and installing vim from source, for anyone else who finds this:
Here's the relevant text:
Building GUI Vim on Ubuntu
You need the required development packages on Ubuntu to build the GUI:
sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libgnome2-dev libgnomeui-dev libgtk2.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libbonoboui2-dev libcairo2-dev libx11-dev libxpm-dev libxt-dev
Commands to build and install GUI Vim:
cd vim7 cd src make distclean ./configure --with-features=huge --enable-gui=gnome2 make sudo make install
Passy's PPA didn't work for me so I've installed vim packages from natty. The only thing you need besides the vim packages from natty are ruby1.8 and libruby1.8 debs.
Probably not the most genius of solutions, but it worked well for me.
The ppa worked for me, but I had to change my .vimrc:
" Stops vim from complaining about split lines using \
set nocp
" Fixes backspace not working to dedent a line
set backspace=indent,eol,start
After searching quite a few times I've come across a PPA with vim 7.3 built for 10.04, 10.10, 11.04 and 11.10. There are quite a few packages in there though, so have a look through the whole list in case another package will get upgraded and cause problems for you. If you wanted to just get the vim packages you could download them - here are the 10.04 links and this page gives the full list with expandable areas under each package showing the full list of links to individual packages.
The magic incantation is:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:blueyed/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Reference: How to use PPAs
You could compile it from source in which you can always get the latest and greatest. You'll need to follow these steps: libncurses5-dev 1. sudo apt-get install build-essentials libncurses5-dev
Get the latest from http://www.vim.org/download.php#unix
Extract the compressed file to a directory with bunzip2.
Enter the directory and type:
A. ./configure B. make C. sudo make install D. sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/vim /usr/bin/vim
Done. You now have the latest version of Vim on your system.
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/usr/local/bin
is already in Ubuntu's default path, and it appears before/usr/bin
. I strongly discourage you from making that symlink in step D and cluttering/usr/bin
with things not installed using apt/dpkg. Oct 15, 2010 at 0:25