Re: Installing vim 7.0
On Mar 5, 4:20 pm, Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 Mar 2007 12:39:42 -0800
>
> "kevin...@gmail.com" <kevin...@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.
I did not, but my main question is, why is it trying to delete my
kernel and not install a new one?
Thanks,
Kevin
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