Re: Compiling Vim on Ubuntu

On Mo, 05 Nov 2018, David Fishburn wrote:

> I am having a hard time getting gvim to compile on Ubuntu 16.04
>
> When I run this:
>
> ./configure --enable-gui
>
> checking for X... (cached) no
> checking if X11 header files can be found... yes
> checking --enable-gui argument... no GUI support
> checking for X11/SM/SMlib.h... (cached) no
>
> This is a standard install of Ubuntu (in a VM), running the dfeault GUI comes
> with Ubuntu (Unity).
>
> I have tried just about everything I can think to get the required support.
>
> sudo apt-get update
>
> sudo apt-get build-dep vim
>
> sudo apt-get build-dep vim-gtk
>
> sudo apt-get install git
>
> sudo apt-get install build-essentials
>
> sudo apt-get install vim-gnome
>
> sudo apt-get install libncursesw5-dev
>
> sudo apt-get update
>
>
>  
>
> /var/tmp/user0/vim8_from_git/vim8# ./configure --enable-gui | grep gui
>
> checking --enable-gui argument... no GUI support
>
>  
>
> /var/tmp/user0/vim8_from_git/vim8# apt build-dep vim
>
> Reading package lists... Done
>
> E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list
>
>  
>
> sudo apt-get update
>
> If this does not fix the issue, edit /etc/apt/sources.list, e.g. using
>
> sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> and ensure that the deb-src lines are not commented out.
>
> sudo apt upgrade
>
> sudo apt -get build-dep vim
>
> sudo apt -get build-dep vim-gtk
>
>
> I can't really think what else to try to install to get the GUI support.

Your sources.list file is missing links to the source packages. So it
does not know how to install source packages needed for compiling.

Have a look here at an example here:
https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/sources.list/#Ubuntu-16-04

and uncomment the `#deb-src` lines.

Once you have modified your sources.list, after an apt-get update you
should be able to run `apt-get build-dep vim-gtk` successfully.

Best,
Christian
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