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Installing vim 7.4 with lua on Ubuntu 16.04
sudo apt-get remove --purge vim vim-runtime vim-gnome vim-tiny vim-common vim-gui-common
sudo apt-get build-dep vim-gnome
sudo apt-get install liblua5.1-dev luajit libluajit-5.1 python-dev ruby-dev libperl-dev libncurses5-dev libgnome2-dev libgnomeui-dev libgtk2.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libbonoboui2-dev libcairo2-dev libx11-dev libxpm-dev libxt-dev
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/share/vim
sudo rm /usr/bin/vim
sudo mkdir /usr/include/lua5.1/include
sudo mv /usr/include/lua5.1/*.h /usr/include/lua5.1/include/
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/luajit-2.0.4 /usr/bin/luajit
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/vim/vim
cd vim/src
make distclean
./configure --with-features=huge \
--enable-rubyinterp \
--enable-largefile \
--disable-netbeans \
--enable-pythoninterp \
--with-python-config-dir=/usr/lib/python2.7/config \
--enable-perlinterp \
--enable-luainterp \
--with-luajit \
--enable-gui=auto \
--enable-fail-if-missing \
--with-lua-prefix=/usr/include/lua5.1 \
--enable-cscope
make
sudo make install
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This didn't work, it can't find the executable in the usr/bin
do I have the move it manually? if so where is it located?

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