Vim is a popular text editor that is available on multiple platforms. In this tutorial, we will be installing Vim from http://www.vim.org on Debian Latest.
Before we proceed with the installation, please ensure that the following prerequisites are met:
Open the terminal on your Debian Latest machine.
Update the package list.
sudo apt update
Install Vim.
sudo apt install vim
Confirm whether the Vim package was installed successfully by running the following command.
vim --version
If Vim is successfully installed, you should see output similar to the following:
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2 (2019 Dec 12, compiled Oct 27 2021 19:19:44)
Included patches: 1-2629
Modified by team+vim@tracker.debian.org
Compiled by team+vim@tracker.debian.org
Huge version without GUI. Features included (+) or not (-):
+acl +file_in_path +modify_fname +tag_old_static
+arabic +find_in_path +mouse +tag_any_white
+autocmd +float -mouseshape -tcl
-autoservername +folding +multi_byte -termguicolors
-balloon_eval -footer +multi_lang +terminal
+balloon_eval_term +fork() -mzscheme +terminfo
...
If you do not receive output similar to the above, then please re-run the installation command to ensure that the Vim package is installed correctly.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Vim from http://www.vim.org on Debian Latest.
In this tutorial, we have demonstrated how to install Vim from http://www.vim.org on Debian Latest. Vim is a powerful text editor that can be used to edit any type of text file. We hope that this tutorial was helpful to you.
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