David Fishburn wrote: > Thank you gentlemen, I have a working GUI Vim now on Ubuntu. > > One last problem. > > gvim > :ver > VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Nov 24 2016 16:44:48) > Included patches: 1-1689 > Extra patches: 8.0.0056 > Modified by [email protected] > Compiled by [email protected] > Huge version with GTK2-GNOME GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): > > > cd /vim8/src > ./vim -g > :ver > VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 18, compiled Nov 7 2018 10:51:26) > Included patches: 1-511 > Compiled by me > Huge version with GTK2 GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): > > I would have thought running the make install should have fixed that up. > > $ ls -la /usr/bin/gvim > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Nov 5 19:02 /usr/bin/gvim -> > /etc/alternatives/gvim* > > I had to (I did a --prefix=/usr): > unlink /usr/bin/gvim > make install
That's a bad idea. You should never put your own things in /usr/bin since it's meant to be managed by apt packages. You can mess up your Ubuntu packages when doing that. Instead, things that you build yourself should go in /usr/local/bin which is the default location if you follow the steps I described in my previous message. You'll need to make sure that /usr/local/bin is in your path before /usr/bin which I think is normally the case by default on Ubuntu. > Then it setup my gvim: > $ ls -la /usr/bin/gvim > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 7 12:48 /usr/bin/gvim -> vim* As an experiment, I deleted my /usr/local/bin than rebuilt the gtk3 vim gui and installed it. I could see a symlink as expected: $ ls -l /usr/local/bin/gvim lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 nov 7 21:25 /usr/local/bin/gvim -> vim This is what I did: $ ./configure --with-features=huge --enable-gui=gtk3 --enable-python3interp --enable-pythoninterp=yes $ make -j8 $ sudo make install I don't know why the symlink is not created for you, but it's best if you try to installed it in /usr/local/bin in any case. Regards Dominique -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
