Vim7 on Ubuntu/Kubuntu

[marc]

Oliver Grawert said...
> hi,
> On Di, 2006-08-15 at 09:00 +0100, 3david wrote:
> > Dear god people,
> > 
> > the guy just wanted to know if and how he can install Vim7 on ubuntu.
> and matt answered that version 7 is the default in edgy and should be
> backported ;)
> 
> if you build 7.0 anyway, why not take the edgy packages and if they work
> fine, notify the backports team so they can put them in the
> dapper-backports repo, so users can install them without any extra
> fiddling and have no essential system package replaced by a checkinstall
> made one which potentially will break their upgradeability.

It's already been raised with backports and they rejected it,

 [Bug 51261] Vim 7

 Rejected until dependencies lighten.

 ** Changed in: dapper-backports (upstream)
        Status: Confirmed => Rejected

 https://launchpad.net/bugs/51261

Although I raised it as:

  [Bug 52539] vim-gtk backport

and eventually received 

  ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 51261 Vim 7

  https://launchpad.net/bugs/52539


So I used the packages from here: 

  http://mirror.ubuntulinux.nl

-- 
Best,
Marc