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Update to Vim8 on Centos 7
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# Method 1: Install using rpm packages (credit to DarkMukke)
#
rpm -Uvh http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/gf-release-latest.gf.el7.noarch.rpm
rpm --import http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/RPM-GPG-KEY-gf.el7
# WARNING: removing vim-minimal uninstalls `sudo` if you skip the second step
# make sure to at least run `yum install sudo`
yum -y remove vim-minimal vim-common vim-enhanced
yum -y --enablerepo=gf-plus install vim-enhanced sudo
# This script will stop here if you run this gist from the command line by
# curling to the **raw** gist: `bash <(curl -s https://gist.githubuser......)`
exit
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# Method 2: Install by building from scratch - contains a lot ot dependancies
#
# Setup essential build environment
yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum -y install ncurses-devel git-core
# Get source
git clone https://github.com/vim/vim && cd vim
# OPTIONAL: configure to provide a comprehensive vim - You can skip this step
# and go straight to `make` which will configure, compile and link with
# defaults.
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-features=huge --enable-multibyte --with-python-config-dir=/usr/lib/python2.7/config --enable-pythoninterp=yes
# Build and install
make && sudo make install
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# Final Check
#
# After installation check your setup with
vim --version
# You should see...
# VIM - Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled Aug 2 2017 16:29:21)
# Included patches: 1-839
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