vim

[Wouter Eerdekens]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 06:40:06AM -0800, Vram wrote:
> vram at ubuntu:~ $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall vim
> Password:
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not
> upgraded.
> Need to get 680kB of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/main vim 1:6.3-025+1ubuntu2
> [680kB]
> Fetched 680kB in 4m19s (2617B/s)
> 
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> (Reading database ... 92984 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace vim 1:6.3-025+1ubuntu2 (using .../vim_1%3a6.3-025
> +1ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement vim ...
> Setting up vim (6.3-025+1ubuntu2) ...
> 
> vram at ubuntu:~ $ which vim
> vram at ubuntu:~ $ ls -l /usr/bin/vim
> ls: /usr/bin/vim: No such file or directory
> vram at ubuntu:~ $

That's strange. Could you please post the output of the commands

dpkg --contents /var/cache/apt/archives/vim_1%3a6.3-025+1ubuntu2_i386.deb

(This command shows what's effectively in the packages)

and

dpkg -L vim

(This command shows the files installed by the package).

Run on my system (warty on an iBook, so powerpc arch, not i386)
I get the following output (last command and first 10 lines of the
output only):

we at ubuntu:~$ dpkg -L vim|head
/.
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/vim
diverted by vim-gnome to: /usr/bin/vim.org
/usr/bin/helpztags
/usr/bin/vimtutor
/usr/bin/xxd
/usr/share
/usr/share/man
we at ubuntu:~$

This shows that the file /usr/bin/vim, from the package 'vim' was
renamed to /usr/bin/vim.org by the install process of the package
vim-gnome, which also contains a file called /usr/bin/vim (but compiled
with GUI support)

Wouter

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