How to Install vim-full in 16.04?

Question

I cannot find it in apt-get. I need vimdiff.

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How can you install vim-full in Ubuntu 16.04?

Solution 1

vimdiff tool is under package vim. You should install vim using following command:

sudo apt-get install vim

Then you can use the vimdiff as:

vimdiff file1 file2

Solution 2

A number of Vim packages are available in the default repositories which have been compiled with different feature-sets. You can search to see which ones are available using:

apt-cache -n search vim

A number of packages provide a version of Vim that has been compiled with the “full” set of Vim features:

• If you only want Vim for command-line use, you can install the vim-nox package (it installs the vim-common package as a dependency).

• If using a GNOME-based desktop environment, install vim-gnome (it executable has been compiled with dependencies on GNOME libraries such as libgnome2, libbonoboui2).

• If using another desktop environment, vim-gtk provides a GTK2 GUI; its only dependency is vim-gui-common (as a Lubuntu user, that’s what I use).

Solution 3

How to install the latest Vim on Ubuntu 16.04, summary reproduced here:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

sudo apt update

sudo apt install -y git

sudo apt install -y build-essential

rm -fr /tmp/vim

git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git /tmp/vim

make -C /tmp/vim

sudo make install -C /tmp/vim

rm -fr /tmp/vim

Comments

[Léo Léopold Hertz 준영]

I think I installed vim-gtk but it does not have vimdiff. Vim-full existed before and I am searching its corresponding thing.

[Christopher B. Adkins]

@Masi What's the output of update-alternatives --display vimdiff ?

[Léo Léopold Hertz 준영]

I already installed rajthakur's command which works.

[Léo Léopold Hertz 준영]

Please, no link-only answers, otherwise it is a comment. I put there the summary.

[eigenfield]

thank you. I used diff a lot and i didn't know that a better vimdiff is available.