Compile a full-featured Vim (w/ Python, Ruby, etc.).

README.md

compile full Vim

The default Vim installed on most Linux distros lacks a number of vital features, like xterm_clipboard (allows copy-and-pasting to the system clipboard) and python (on which certain plugins rely). The compile_full_vim.sh shell script removes the currently installed Vim and compiles a full-featured version; it's based entirely off Valloric's YouCompleteMe walkthrough, which it bundles into a simple script for convenience. Vim will be compiled with the following feature flags:

• --with-features=huge
• --enable-multibyte
• --enable-rubyinterp
• --enable-pythoninterp
• --enable-perlinterp
• --enable-luainterp
• --enable-gui=gtk2
• --enable-cscope

Note that it's written for anything Debian-like. See the original walkthrough for help with other distros.

compile_full_vim.sh

#! /bin/bash

# Description:
#   Compile a full-featured Vim from source on Ubuntu/Debian distros. Based
#   entirely on
#   https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe/wiki/Building-Vim-from-source
#
# Use:
#   ./compile_full_vim.sh

main(){
	echo "y" | sudo apt-get remove \
		vim \
		vim-runtime \
		gvim \
		vim-tiny \
		vim-common \
		vim-gui-common
	echo "y" | sudo apt-get install \
		libncurses5-dev \
		libgnome2-dev \
		libgnomeui-dev \
		libgtk2.0-dev \
		libatk1.0-dev \
		libbonoboui2-dev \
		libcairo2-dev \
		libx11-dev \
		libxpm-dev \
		libxt-dev \
		python-dev ruby-dev \
		mercurial

	cd ~
	hg clone https://code.google.com/p/vim/
	cd vim
	./configure --with-features=huge \
		--enable-multibyte \
		--enable-rubyinterp \
		--enable-pythoninterp \
		--with-python-config-dir=/usr/lib/python2.7/config \
		--enable-perlinterp \
		--enable-luainterp \
		--enable-gui=gtk2 \
		--enable-cscope \
		--prefix=/usr
	make VIMRUNTIMEDIR=/usr/share/vim/vim74
	sudo make install
}

main

git clone git@github.com:vim/vim.git --depth=1

On Debian 11, apt couldn't locate package: libgnome2-dev libgnomeui-dev libbonoboui2-dev. The libraries were available until Debian 9.