Vim is still present and executable even after running apt remove and purge on its package
Solution 1:
You uninstalled vim
not vim. vim-tiny
, vim-nox
, vim-gtk
, and vim-athena
all provide vim compiled with different options.
Solution 2:
To find the location of a program, use the whereis
command
whereis vim
It should show you if and where it is installed.
Please also note: $VIMRUNTIME
is only a directory holding mainly configuration files. Have a closer look here.
Solution 3:
Based on answers by hildred/Fiximan, I used the following command and it worked:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove vim-gtk3
I am using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
Solution 4:
Your vim
can also be a symlink to the part of neovim package, which is sometimes hard to find, because its "vim" part is in the end. After removing neovim (sudo apt-get remove neovim
), you'll have probably no other vim
s in your system. Then you can normally instal vim
via sudo apt-get install vim
.