Download and Compile and Install latest Vim on Debian

README.md

How to use this gist to update Vim from sources

% wget https://gist.github.com/ivellios/004b1352d0bb8405111358b9fdb29f99/raw/update_vim_debian.sh -O - | bash

update_vim_debian.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

echo "Install required packages ..."
sudo apt-get install -y libncurses-dev make gcc

echo "Remove installed vim ..."
sudo apt-get remove -y vim vim-runtime gvim vim-tiny vim-common vim-gui-common

wget -O vim.tar.gz http://github.com/vim/vim/archive/master.tar.gz
tar -xzf vim.tar.gz

cd vim-master/src
./configure
make
make install
ln -s /usr/local/bin/vim /usr/bin/vim

# cleanup
cd ../..
rm -f vim.tar.gz
rm -rf vim-master