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Installing vim from source
#!/bin/bash
curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/notmii/8211765/raw/1440ac89f3ddd1af40381203e35b2b6a645a1baf/install-lua | sh
sudo apt-get install --yes checkinstall auto-apt mercurial
hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ vim-source
cd vim-source && hg pull && hg update
sudo apt-get remove --purge vim \
vim-runtime \
gvim vim-tiny \
vim-common \
vim-gui-common
sudo apt-get build-dep vim-gtk
sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev libncurses5-dev \
libreadline-dev libgnome2-dev libgtk2.0-dev \
libatk1.0-dev libbonoboui2-dev libcairo2-dev \
libx11-dev libxpm-dev libxt-dev
sudo auto-apt run ./configure \
--with-compiledby=notmii \
--enable-sniff \
--enable-multibyte \
--enable-fontset \
--with-features=huge \
--enable-luainterp=yes \
--with-lua-prefix=/usr/local \
--enable-rubyinterp \
--enable-pythoninterp \
--with-python-config-dir=/usr/lib/python2.7/config \
--enable-perlinterp \
--enable-gui=gnome2 \
--enable-gtk2-check \
--with-x \
--enable-cscope \
--prefix=/usr/local \
&& sudo make VIMRUNTIMEDIR=/usr/local/share/vim/vim74 \
&& sudo checkinstall \
&& sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/editor editor /usr/local/bin/vim 1 \
&& sudo update-alternatives --set editor /usr/local/bin/vim \
&& sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/vi vi /usr/local/bin/vim 1 \
&& sudo update-alternatives --set vi /usr/local/bin/vim
vim --version
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