How to install full version of Vim on Ubuntu
Vim is a very powerful text editor and is available in almost all modern computing platforms. It is bundled in the default installation of almost Linux distribution, though Ubuntu ships with the minimal version of Vim which lack features such as syntax highlighting making it less powerful or useful as it could be.
Details about the currently installed version could be gathered by running vi --version from the command line .The full version of Vim is available in the default package repository and can easily be installed by following these steps at the terminal:
- Open
terminalfrom the application launcher or via the<ctrl>+<alt>+<t>keyboard shortcut.
- View list of enabled and disabled features of currently installed
Vim.$ vi --version VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 18, compiled Nov 03 2018 00:15:14) Included patches: 1-320 Modified by team+vim@tracker.debian.org Compiled by team+vim@tracker.debian.org Small version without GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): +acl -extra_search -mouse_sgr -tcl -arabic -farsi -mouse_sysmouse -termguicolors +autocmd -file_in_path -mouse_urxvt -terminal -autochdir -find_in_path -mouse_xterm +terminfo -autoservername -float +multi_byte -termresponse -balloon_eval -folding -multi_lang -textobjects -balloon_eval_term -footer -mzscheme -timers -browse +fork() -netbeans_intg -title +builtin_terms -gettext -num64 -toolbar -byte_offset -hangul_input -packages -user_commands -channel +iconv -path_extra -vartabs -cindent -insert_expand -perl +vertsplit -clientserver -job -persistent_undo -virtualedit -clipboard +jumplist -printer +visual -cmdline_compl -keymap -profile -visualextra +cmdline_hist -lambda -python -viminfo -cmdline_info -langmap -python3 +vreplace -comments -libcall -quickfix +wildignore -conceal -linebreak -reltime -wildmenu -cryptv -lispindent -rightleft +windows -cscope +listcmds -ruby +writebackup +cursorbind -localmap +scrollbind -X11 -cursorshape -lua -signs +xfontset -dialog -menu -smartindent -xim -diff -mksession -startuptime -xpm -digraphs -modify_fname -statusline -xsmp -dnd -mouse -sun_workshop -xterm_clipboard -ebcdic -mouse_dec -syntax -xterm_save -emacs_tags -mouse_gpm +tag_binary -eval -mouse_jsbterm -tag_old_static +ex_extra -mouse_netterm -tag_any_white system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc" user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc" 2nd user vimrc file: "~/.vim/vimrc" user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc" defaults file: "$VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim" fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/vim" Compilation: gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Wdate-time -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/vim-GAHaXS/vim-8.1.0320=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -DTINY_VIMRC -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 Linking: gcc -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -Wl,--as-needed -o vim -lSM -lICE -lXpm -lXt -lX11 -lXdmcp -lSM -lICE -lm -ltinfo -lselinux -lacl -lattr -ldl - Remove
vim-tinywhich is the default installation package.$ sudo apt remove --assume-yes vim-tiny [sudo] password for user: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: vim-common xxd Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: ubuntu-minimal vim-tiny 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. ##### snipped
- Update
apt's package list.$ sudo apt update Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco-security InRelease [97.5 kB] Hit:2 http://my.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco InRelease Hit:3 http://my.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco-updates InRelease Hit:4 http://my.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco-backports InRelease Fetched 97.5 kB in 1s (65.5 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done All packages are up to date.
- Install the full version of
Vim.$ sudo apt install --assume-yes vim Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: vim-runtime Suggested packages: ctags vim-doc vim-scripts The following NEW packages will be installed: vim vim-runtime 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 6,789 kB of archives. After this operation, 33.0 MB of additional disk space will be used. ##### snipped
- Verify package is successfully installed and view the list of enabled features.
$ vi --version VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 18, compiled Nov 03 2018 00:15:14) Included patches: 1-320 Modified by team+vim@tracker.debian.org Compiled by team+vim@tracker.debian.org Huge version without GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): +acl +extra_search +mouse_netterm +tag_old_static +arabic +farsi +mouse_sgr -tag_any_white +autocmd +file_in_path -mouse_sysmouse -tcl +autochdir +find_in_path +mouse_urxvt +termguicolors -autoservername +float +mouse_xterm +terminal -balloon_eval +folding +multi_byte +terminfo +balloon_eval_term -footer +multi_lang +termresponse -browse +fork() -mzscheme +textobjects ++builtin_terms +gettext +netbeans_intg +timers +byte_offset -hangul_input +num64 +title +channel +iconv +packages -toolbar +cindent +insert_expand +path_extra +user_commands -clientserver +job -perl +vartabs -clipboard +jumplist +persistent_undo +vertsplit +cmdline_compl +keymap +postscript +virtualedit +cmdline_hist +lambda +printer +visual +cmdline_info +langmap +profile +visualextra +comments +libcall -python +viminfo +conceal +linebreak +python3 +vreplace +cryptv +lispindent +quickfix +wildignore +cscope +listcmds +reltime +wildmenu +cursorbind +localmap +rightleft +windows +cursorshape -lua -ruby +writebackup +dialog_con +menu +scrollbind -X11 +diff +mksession +signs -xfontset +digraphs +modify_fname +smartindent -xim -dnd +mouse +startuptime -xpm -ebcdic -mouseshape +statusline -xsmp +emacs_tags +mouse_dec -sun_workshop -xterm_clipboard +eval +mouse_gpm +syntax -xterm_save +ex_extra -mouse_jsbterm +tag_binary system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc" user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc" 2nd user vimrc file: "~/.vim/vimrc" user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc" defaults file: "$VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim" fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/vim" Compilation: gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Wdate-time -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/vim-GAHaXS/vim-8.1.0320=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 Linking: gcc -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -Wl,--as-needed -o vim -lm -ltinfo -lnsl -lselinux -lacl -lattr -lgpm -ldl -L/usr/lib/python3.7/config-3.7m-x86_64-linux-gnu -lpython3.7m -lpthread -ldl -lutil -lm
