Re: Installing vim 7.0
On 5 Mar 2007 12:39:42 -0800
"kevinold@gmail.com" <kevinold@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm a long time RH/Fedora sysadmin/user and have decided to use Debian
> 3.1r5 on my server at home. I downloaded the bootable Network CD
> (180MB) and then via the config after boot I installed additional
> packages.
>
> Everything is working fine and I installed vim 6.3 (current stable
> version) via aptitude and all works well. Except that I want vim 7.
> It is available in the testing and unstable repositories, but when I
> do an "aptitude install vim" it wants to remove my current kernel.
I would guess that this is because it depends on libc6 >= 2.3.6-6, but
I may be totally wrong.
> I also tried to install vim 7 from source, but when compiling it
> determined that I didn't have ncurses installed. Again aptitude wants
> to delete my current running kernel but didn't say anything about
> installing ncurses.
Did you install libncurses-dev? It contains the development files for
building ncurses apps.
Celejar
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