vim7

[Guest]

Hi all,
What's everyone else doing to get vim7 in dapper?

I tried the debian unstable version, which of course depends on a different libc:

0 #> apt-get -s install vim-common vim-gnome vim-gtk vim-gui-common vim-runtime vim-doc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
vim-common: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6) but 2.3.6-0ubuntu20 is to be installed
vim-gnome: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6) but 2.3.6-0ubuntu20 is to be installed
vim-gtk: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6) but 2.3.6-0ubuntu20 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

Thanks, Bruce

[rwhelton]

Re: vim7

I suggest just downloading the source from vim.org and building it yourself. This worked well for me. It does not build with GUI enabled though. Here is how I built it:

In the vim70 directory, after untaring it...
./configure --with-features=huge --enable-fontset --disable-gtktest --with-x && make install

The --disable-gtktest and --with-x were attempts to get it to build GUI support, but no luck.