i want gvim on my Fedora Core distro

QubeSquare · 03-16-2004, 10:22 AM

At CSULB, were i attend, they have a gui verison of vim. I think it uses GTK or something. Anyways, at my house i decide to install linux becuase i liked it so much at school. I have Fedora Core 1 installed. I am able to use the normal vim, but i would like to use the gui verison of vim the school has. 'gvim' is all i have to type to launch the app. If anyone can point me to a tutorial or the files i would need to get this setup i would be very thankful! thanks in advance.

mossy · 03-16-2004, 11:38 AM

it may come on the cd - I know mandrake does...otherwise google is your friend:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...8&q=gvim+linux

QubeSquare · 03-17-2004, 02:44 PM

well, i found an rpm for vim with the gtk gui... but i get the error that says i need vim-common... but i have it... and when i try to install the vim-common rpm it says i already have it... what gives?

mossy · 03-17-2004, 11:23 PM

maybe version?
the installed vim-common may be in diff locations [was a diff package] when installed.

Reinstall the correct rpm package version.

QubeSquare · 03-23-2004, 03:24 AM

i went to this site and they tell u what file to download, i un compressed it, and ran the commands they provided, and BAM! gvim... finally i can sleep... thanks for ur help... i hope this link helps others wanting gVIM 6.2

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs...stlfs/vim.html