Vim is a text editor that is upwards compatible to Vi. Vim can be used to edit all kinds of plain text. It is especially useful for editing programs. In this post, i will show how to install vim on linux Fedora 16 server. This steps has been tested on Fedora 16, it may working on other linux distribution as well.<\/p>\n
If your Fedora 16 does not have vim installed, you’ill get the following error :<\/p>\n
\n[root@fedora16 ~]# vim \/etc\/httpd\/conf\/httpd.conf\n-bash: vim: command not found\n<\/pre>\nTo install vim on your Fedora 16, simply run the following command :<\/p>\n
\n[root@fedora16 ~]# yum install vim -y\n<\/pre>\nor<\/p>\n
\n[root@fedora16 ~]# yum install vim-enhanced -y\n<\/pre>\n\n[root@fedora16 ~]# yum install vim -y\nSetting up Install Process\nResolving Dependencies\n--> Running transaction check\n---> Package vim-enhanced.i686 2:7.3.315-1.fc16 will be installed\n--> Processing Dependency: vim-common = 2:7.3.315-1.fc16 for package: 2:vim-enhanced-7.3.315-1.fc16.i686\n--> Processing Dependency: libgpm.so.2 for package: 2:vim-enhanced-7.3.315-1.fc16.i686\n--> Processing Dependency: libruby.so.1.8 for package: 2:vim-enhanced-7.3.315-1.fc16.i686\n--> Running transaction check\n---> Package gpm-libs.i686 0:1.20.6-21.fc16 will be installed\n---> Package ruby-libs.i686 0:1.8.7.357-1.fc16 will be installed\n--> Processing Dependency: libreadline.so.5 for package: ruby-libs-1.8.7.357-1.fc16.i686\n---> Package vim-common.i686 2:7.3.315-1.fc16 will be installed\n--> Processing Dependency: vim-filesystem for package: 2:vim-common-7.3.315-1.fc16.i686\n--> Running transaction check\n---> Package compat-readline5.i686 0:5.2-18.fc15 will be installed\n---> Package vim-filesystem.i686 2:7.3.315-1.fc16 will be installed\n--> Finished Dependency Resolution\n\nDependencies Resolved\n\n====================================================================================================\n Package Arch Version Repository Size\n====================================================================================================\nInstalling:\n vim-enhanced i686 2:7.3.315-1.fc16 Fedora16-Repository 889 k\nInstalling for dependencies:\n compat-readline5 i686 5.2-18.fc15 Fedora16-Repository 126 k\n gpm-libs i686 1.20.6-21.fc16 updates 29 k\n ruby-libs i686 1.8.7.357-1.fc16 updates 1.8 M\n vim-common i686 2:7.3.315-1.fc16 Fedora16-Repository 5.4 M\n vim-filesystem i686 2:7.3.315-1.fc16 Fedora16-Repository 14 k\n\nTransaction Summary\n====================================================================================================\nInstall 6 Packages\n\nTotal download size: 8.3 M\nInstalled size: 27 M\nDownloading Packages:\n(2\/6): gpm-libs-1.20.6-21.fc16.i686.rpm | 29 kB 00:00\n(3\/6): ruby-libs-1.8.7.357-1.fc16.i686.rpm | 1.8 MB 00:22\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nTotal 349 kB\/s | 8.3 MB 00:24\nRunning Transaction Check\nRunning Transaction Test\nTransaction Test Succeeded\nRunning Transaction\n Installing : 2:vim-filesystem-7.3.315-1.fc16.i686 1\/6\n Installing : 2:vim-common-7.3.315-1.fc16.i686 2\/6\n Installing : gpm-libs-1.20.6-21.fc16.i686 3\/6\n Installing : compat-readline5-5.2-18.fc15.i686 4\/6\n Installing : ruby-libs-1.8.7.357-1.fc16.i686 5\/6\n Installing : 2:vim-enhanced-7.3.315-1.fc16.i686 6\/6\n\nInstalled:\n vim-enhanced.i686 2:7.3.315-1.fc16\n\nDependency Installed:\n compat-readline5.i686 0:5.2-18.fc15 gpm-libs.i686 0:1.20.6-21.fc16\n ruby-libs.i686 0:1.8.7.357-1.fc16 vim-common.i686 2:7.3.315-1.fc16\n vim-filesystem.i686 2:7.3.315-1.fc16\n\nComplete!\n<\/pre>\nTo start using vim editor instead of vi as below :<\/p>\n
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