Re: VIM Editor

[William Chow <williamc@uclink2.berkeley.edu>]

On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Branden Robinson wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Indus wrote:
> 
> > I am new to Linux and I have just tried to install the system onto a 386
> > DX20 laptop with 8mb of ram. When I try running VIM, I get an error message
> > saying that it needs the 'libXaw.so.6' library. Where can I get this ?
> 
> libXaw.so.6 is the Athena widget set for X11R6. Many programs that have an
> X Windows mode require this, even if they also have a text mode interface.
> 
> You need to install the "xlib" package.  This does *not* mean you have to
> install X windows -- I wouldn't try running it on a 386DX20 with 8 megs
> anyway.
> 
> The xlib package should update your /etc/ld.so.conf to include the line
> "/usr/X11R6/lib"; if it doesn't, use ae or one of the other small editors to
> do it.

Weird, I did an ldd on vim. The only two libs it needs are ncurses and
libc. Are there two different versions of vim in the debian packaging
system, one with and one without X support?