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Install Vim From the Source on Fedora/CentOS
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Installing Vim by building from the source needs bunch of dependancies.

Setup essential build environment

yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum -y install ncurses-devel git-core

Get the source

git clone https://github.com/vim/vim && cd vim

Pre-build configuration

Configure to provide a comprehensive vim; You can skip this step and go straight to make which will configure, compile and link with defaults.

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-features=huge --enable-multibyte --with-python-config-dir=/usr/lib/python2.7/config --enable-pythoninterp=yes

Build and install

make && sudo make install

After installation check your setup with

vim --version
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