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Install vim with lua support on ubuntu 16.04
I needed to install vim with lua support because I wanted to use neocomplete in my recently installed 15.04 distro. Also, this has python3 enabled by default.
Tested on 16.04 now
Update: This has been tested and verified to work on Ubuntu 16.04 as well. Also, if you wish to use particular branch/tag, you can get the version and then checkout appropriately.
The following (based upon https://gist.github.com/jdewit/9818870) should work though I copied it from history:
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 build-essential liblua5.3-0 liblua5.3-dev 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 /usr/bin/vim /usr/local/bin/vim
sudo mkdir /usr/include/lua5.3/{include,lib}
sudo cp /usr/include/lua5.3/*.h /usr/include/lua5.3/include/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblua5.3.so /usr/include/lua5.3/lib/liblua.so
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblua5.3.a /usr/include/lua5.3/lib/liblua.a
cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git
cd vim
git checkout v8.0.0503
make distclean
./configure --with-features=huge \
--enable-rubyinterp \
--enable-largefile \
--disable-netbeans \
--enable-python3interp \
--with-python-config-dir=$(python3-config --configdir) \
--enable-perlinterp \
--enable-luainterp \
--enable-gui=auto \
--enable-fail-if-missing \
--with-lua-prefix=/usr/include/lua5.3 \
--enable-cscope \
--enable-multibyte
make
sudo make install
@rainbowbird
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@for techgaun, for the python/python3 interpreter support,
--enable-python3interp --with-python3-config-dir=$(python3-config --configdir) \ --enable-pythoninterp --with-python-config-dir=$(python-config --configdir)

@pitakill
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I can confirm that this works on xubuntu 18.04

@ngunyie
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ngunyie commented Mar 19, 2019

This also works on WSL, Ubuntu 18.04 but the sudo apt-get build-dep vim-gnome gives an error which you should ignore
and you will need to add this command
sudo apt-get install python3-dev

sudo apt-get build-dep vim-gnome outputs E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list

@tomef
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tomef commented May 15, 2019

If you just want vim with lua support on Ubuntu 18.04, dump the original vim (sudo apt-get purge vim) and sudo apt-get install vim-gtk. Even on a server you still get the non-gui version of vim with lua support when you install the vim-gtk package.

@holonking
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worked on wsl ubuntu 18

@lekodeveloperweb
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Worked on ubuntu 16.04.6

@steing
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steing commented Apr 18, 2020

sudo apt-get purge vim and sudo apt-get install vim-gtk

worked on WSL ubuntu 18.04

@holidaysss
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E: Unable to locate package libgnome2-dev
E: Unable to locate package libgnomeui-dev
E: Unable to locate package libbonoboui2-dev
Help!! Its something wrong in Ubantu20.04

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ckevar commented Feb 18, 2024

I confirm this still works on Pop!_OS 18.04 LTS

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