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Léo Léopold Hertz 준영
Asked: 2016-05-21 05:13:11 +0800 CST

How to Install vim-full in 16.04?

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I cannot find it in apt-get. I need vimdiff.

How can you install vim-full in Ubuntu 16.04?

16.04

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    vimdiff tool is under package vim. You should install vim using following command:

    sudo apt-get install vim

    Then you can use the vimdiff as:

    vimdiff file1 file2
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  2. A number of Vim packages are available in the default repositories which have been compiled with different feature-sets. You can search to see which ones are available using:

    apt-cache -n search vim

    A number of packages provide a version of Vim that has been compiled with the “full” set of Vim features:

    • If you only want Vim for command-line use, you can install the vim-nox package (it installs the vim-common package as a dependency).

    • If using a GNOME-based desktop environment, install vim-gnome (it executable has been compiled with dependencies on GNOME libraries such as libgnome2, libbonoboui2).

    • If using another desktop environment, vim-gtk provides a GTK2 GUI; its only dependency is vim-gui-common (as a Lubuntu user, that’s what I use).

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  3. How to install the latest Vim on Ubuntu 16.04, summary reproduced here:

    #!/usr/bin/env bash

sudo apt update

sudo apt install -y git

sudo apt install -y build-essential

rm -fr /tmp/vim

git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git /tmp/vim

make -C /tmp/vim

sudo make install -C /tmp/vim

rm -fr /tmp/vim
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