vim How to Compile Vim Compiling on Ubuntu
Example
To build vim from source on Ubuntu:
- Get a copy of the source code by downloading from the official Vim repository on GitHub.
- Get the dependencies by running
$ sudo apt-get build-dep vim-gnomeor similar. - Go to the directory of the Vim source code:
cd vim/src - Run
$ ./configure. You can customize the build (and enable Perl, Python, etc. language integrations) by passing configuration options. Seesrc/INSTALLfor an overview. - Run
$ make. - Finish the installation by running
$ sudo make install. As your self-compiled Vim is not managed by the package manager, it will be placed in/usr/local/bin/vim, instead of/usr/bin/vim. So, to run it, you either need to specify the full path, or ensure that/usr/local/binis before/usr/binin yourPATH(it usually is). - (Optional) Remove the distribution-provided version of Vim if you had it installed already:
$ sudo apt-get remove vim vim-runtime gvim.
To verify the installation, you can run $ which vim which should return something like /usr/local/bin/vim if the installation was successful.
