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