Vim 8 with system clipboard on 16.04 LTS

I have install Vim 8 (so that I can use ale). Unfortunately I can't seem to get the system clipboard to work. (E.g. using vim-gnome I would use the "+y to yank to the system clipboard. Has anybody got this working?

I installed Vim 8 using:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/vim
sudo apt update
sudo apt install vim

Solution 1:

If after adding the jonathanf/vim PPA you apt install vim, it installs vim.basic. If you instead apt install vim-gtk3, then you get vim.gtk3 which has +clipboard, and thus the system clipboard. Regardless of which one you install, it will get symlinked to /usr/bin/vim

(converted my comment to an answer in case anyone else stumbles into here)

Solution 2:

I was able to get what I needed by building from the source with the following:

$ sudo apt-get remove vim # to remove the binary I had installed
$ sudo apt build-dep vim
$ git clone [email protected]:vim/vim.git
$ cd vim/src
$ ./configure --enable-multibyte \
            --enable-rubyinterp=yes \
            --enable-pythoninterp=yes \
            --with-python-config-dir=/usr/lib/python2.7/config \
            --enable-python3interp=yes \
            --with-python3-config-dir=/usr/lib/python3.5/config \
            --enable-perlinterp=yes \
            --enable-luainterp=yes \
            --enable-cscope \
            --prefix=/usr \
            --enable-gui=auto --enable-gtk2-check --with-x # this is what I needed
$ make
$ sudo make install