vim-gome half-installs

[Karl Auer]

> The good news is tat there is nto a bug. The user can recover. I would
> recommend interactive troubleshooting if possible, but the basic steps are:
> 1) verify available disc space
> 2) check perl (`perl -v`)
> 3) purge all version of vim, and delete all vim version from the package
> cache (/var/chace/apt/archives)
> 4) run `sudo apt-get -f install` to make sure there isn't an unrelated issue
> 5) try reinstalling

I sort of did that. I told Synaptic to completely remove vim, and lo! It
removed ubuntu-minimal as well. Then I was able to install and use
vim-gnome normally. I do think there is some kind of problem with the
vim install if it installs files I don't need, can't use and that screw
up other installs...

And to think all I wanted to do was look at it! Did that, now I've
removed it too :-)

Thank you for yor help (and thanks to others who helped too!).

Regards, K.

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