vim: command not found

Question

I'm trying to install openflow in Ubuntu, but I encounter a problem when installing regression suite. I follow the instruction from openflow website with the below lines

To update the OF_ROOT environment variable for your setup:

cd ~/   
cp <openflow-dir>/regress/scripts/env_vars .  
vim env_vars

but when I run vim env_vars, I get a vim: command not found error. Why?

Solution

Try installing vim:

sudo apt-get install vim

or you can use a different text editor, like nano, which may be easier to use:

nano env_vars

Comments

[Steve Kroon]

This is needed because vim is not installed on Ubuntu by default.

[Sandun]

I tried this and it gives the same error but for "apt-get" instead. ("apt-get: command not found")