Where can I find Vim 7.3?
Vim 7.3 is out, but not available in the sources. Where can I get an installation package for the 7.3 version? I don't want to install it manually.
I couldn't find any official packages either, so I created a PPA. Feel free to use it:
https://launchpad.net/~passy/+archive/vim
apt-add-repository ppa:passy/vim
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
Reference: How to use PPAs
I built vim from sources using this sequence of commands:
sudo apt-get build-dep vim-gnome
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
mkdir -p ~/src
hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ ~/src/vim
cd ~/src/vim
./configure --enable-multibyte --enable-pythoninterp --enable-cscope --enable-xim --with-features=big \
--with-python-config-dir=/usr/lib/python2.7/config-$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)
make
and I run it without installing by using this wrapper script ~/bin/vim
:
#!/bin/sh
vimhome=$HOME/src/vim
if test -x $vimhome/src/vim; then
VIMRUNTIME=$vimhome/runtime $vimhome/src/vim "$@"
else
/usr/bin/vim "$@"
fi
But I did that only because I couldn't find a PPA back then.
Vimwiki now has some instructions for building and installing vim from source, for anyone else who finds this:
Here's the relevant text:
Building GUI Vim on Ubuntu
You need the required development packages on Ubuntu to build the GUI:
sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libgnome2-dev libgnomeui-dev libgtk2.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libbonoboui2-dev libcairo2-dev libx11-dev libxpm-dev libxt-dev
Commands to build and install GUI Vim:
cd vim7 cd src make distclean ./configure --with-features=huge --enable-gui=gnome2 make sudo make install