Sunday, February 28, 2010

RE: FedoraCore 8

Just to end the thread on installing vim on certain unix systems
(based on replies from Benjamin R. Haskell and Matt Wozniski):

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!

2) Links google finds of rpms for old unixes might be broken.
This is a good place for packages for old OS:
http://archive.kernel.org/fedora-archive/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/

3) On Debian based systems, such as ubuntu, one can use the
"sudo apt-get" (that's apt, not app!) command; more details
for ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VimHowto

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.)

--Suresh

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