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Compiling Vim with neocomplete plugin supported on Ubuntu.
# if you have installed vim beforehand, remove with the following command
sudo apt-get remove vim vim-runtime vim-tiny vim-common
# Get the dependencies installed before compiling Vim
sudo apt install libncurses5-dev python-dev libperl-dev ruby-dev liblua5.2-dev \
libgnome2-dev libgnomeui-dev \
libgtk2.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libbonoboui2-dev \
libcairo2-dev libx11-dev libxpm-dev libxt-dev \
python3-dev git
# fix the path to liblua
sudo ln -s /usr/include/lua5.2 /usr/include/lua
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblua5.2.so /usr/local/lib/liblua.so
cd
git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git
cd vim
# feel free to change the following configuration according to your need
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--enable-luainterp=yes \
--enable-perlinterp=yes \
--enable-pythoninterp=yes \
--enable-rubyinterp=yes \
--enable-cscope \
--enable-multibyte \
--enable-largefile \
--enable-gui=gtk2 \
--with-features=huge \
--with-python-config-dir=/usr/lib/python2.7/config-x86_64-linux-gnu
--with-python3-config-dir=/usr/lib/python3.5/config-3.5m-x86_64-linux-gnu
make VIMRUNTIMEDIR=/usr/share/vim/vim80
sudo make install
# Installation is complete and you can check your Vim version simply by running vim on the terminal and type :version and press enter.
# Make sure you can see +lua, +python and +python3.
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