| 1 | <sect2>
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| 2 | <title>Installation of Vim</title>
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| 3 |
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| 4 | <para>
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| 5 | If you don't like vim to be installed as an editor on the LFS system,
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| 6 | you may want to download an alternative and install an editor you
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| 7 | prefer. There are a few hints how to install different editors
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| 8 | available at <ulink
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| 9 | url="http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-hints/">
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| 10 | http://www.archive.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-hints/</ulink>. The
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| 11 | hints which are currently available are for Emacs, Joe and nano.
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| 12 | </para>
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| 13 |
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| 14 | <para>
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| 15 | Both the vim-rt and vim-src packages need to be unpacked to install Vim.
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| 16 | Both packages will unpack their files into the vim-&vim-version; directory. This
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| 17 | won't overwrite any files from the other package. So it doesn't matter
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| 18 | in which order it is done. Install Vim by running the following commands:
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| 19 | </para>
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| 20 |
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| 21 | <para>
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| 22 | <screen>
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| 23 | <userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &&</userinput>
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| 24 | <userinput>make &&</userinput>
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| 25 | <userinput>make install &&</userinput>
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| 26 | <userinput>cd /usr/bin &&</userinput>
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| 27 | <userinput>ln -s vim vi</userinput>
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| 28 | </screen>
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| 29 | </para>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <para>
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| 32 | If you plan on installing the X Window system on your LFS
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| 33 | system, you might want to re-compile Vim after you have installed X. Vim
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| 34 | comes with a nice GUI version of the editor which requires X and a few
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| 35 | other libraries to be installed. For more information read the Vim
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| 36 | documentation.
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| 37 | </para>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | </sect2>
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <sect2>
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| 42 | <title>FHS compliance notes</title>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <para>
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| 45 | The FHS says that editors like vim should use /var/lib/<editor> for their
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| 46 | temporary state files, like temporary save files for example. If you wish vim to
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| 47 | conform to the FHS, you should use this command set instead of the one presented
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| 48 | above:
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| 49 | </para>
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| 50 |
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| 51 | <para>
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| 52 | <screen>
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| 53 | <userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var/lib/vim &&</userinput>
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| 54 | <userinput>make &&</userinput>
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| 55 | <userinput>make install &&</userinput>
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| 56 | <userinput>cd /usr/bin &&</userinput>
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| 57 | <userinput>ln -s vim vi &&</userinput>
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| 58 | <userinput>mkdir /var/lib/vim</userinput>
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| 59 | </screen>
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| 60 | </para>
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| 61 |
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| 62 | </sect2>
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| 63 |
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