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Compiling vim on Ubuntu 16 with LUA-support
# Remove previous installations
sudo apt-get remove vim vim-runtime vim-tiny vim-common
# Install dependencies
sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev python-dev libperl-dev ruby-dev liblua5.2-dev
# Fix liblua paths
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
# Clone vim sources
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git
cd vim
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--enable-luainterp=yes \
--enable-perlinterp=yes \
--enable-pythoninterp=yes \
--enable-rubyinterp=yes \
--enable-cscope \
--disable-netbeans \
--enable-multibyte \
--enable-largefile \
--enable-gui=no \
--with-features=huge \
--with-python-config-dir=/usr/lib/python2.7/config-x86_64-linux-gnu
make VIMRUNTIMEDIR=/usr/share/vim/vim74
sudo apt-get install checkinstall
sudo checkinstall
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