Lost vi/vim

[Laurent CHARLES]

> I wrote:
>> I've probably done something wrong... I've lost 'vim'. The file 
>> '/usr/bin/vim' does not exist anymore, while the packages vim & 
>> vim-common are installed.

>> I've tried to reinstall without much success. 'sudo apt-get install
>>  --reinstall vim vim-common'

Vram a écrit :
> Did you try to uninstall and then reinstall?

% sudo apt-get remove --purge vim
% sudo apt-get install --reinstall vim

And vim is back...

Colin Watson a écrit :
> Sounds like damage from installing the broken kvim package. Try
> removing that.

Yes. Probably that, as kvim has been removed with vim.

Anyhow, would it mean '--reinstall' does not really reinstall?


> On one of my other installs.  Vim installed as vim.org...

I think I've also noticed a vim.org. Not sure, it disappeared during the
remove/install. Maybe the side effect of kvim.


Thank you all

-- Laurent