Hey guys and gals I have a slight problem I need to solve. I'm trying to export the Vim text editor program to an external SD card, from a live CD environment (if that matters any). Currently I have Vim installed in RAM, but I would preferably like to run Vim straight from the SD card (if that's possible). However I am willing keep exporting the Vim program files from SD to the live CD if thats what it takes, as I need to do my editing in a live environment.. The problem is im not sure what I need to copy over.. Do I use locate and copy ALL those files, or would a simple whereis be sufficent?

You do:to find the files you need.

Thanks for sharing that command, I totally forgot I can also do that with dpkg or apt...

Heres the output of dpkg --listfiles vim (this lists the files that were installed with the package)

/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/lintian
/usr/share/lintian/overrides
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/vim
/usr/share/bug
/usr/share/bug/vim
/usr/share/bug/vim/script
/usr/share/bug/vim/presubj
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/vim.basic
/usr/share/doc/vim

And the output of apt-cache depends vim (this lists what vim depends on to run)

vim
Depends: vim-common
Depends: vim-runtime
Depends: libacl1
Depends: libc6
Depends: libgpm2
Depends: libpython3.5
Depends: libselinux1
Depends: libtinfo5
Suggests: <ctags>
exuberant-ctags:i386
exuberant-ctags
Suggests: vim-doc
Suggests: vim-scripts

Do I just save the files from dpkg --listfiles vim, then do dpkg -i vim to install the package so the configuartion file gets setup? (note i dont mess with the config file ever manually)

UPDATE: I got it working and i'm somewhat "satisfied" but theres no color which is not a huge deal, but the annoying thing is everytime time I type vim myfile it says:

Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vimrc
line 20:
E484: Can't open file /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/syntax.vim
Press ENTER or type command to continue

But as far as I can tell it works, all I did was throw everything from the output of whereis vim into /usr/bin.. It's just I have to always press enter everytime I vim a file cause of that error.. If anyone knows what I can do to get rid of the error that'll be much appreciated. (also there's no vimdiff or online help)

COLORS with VIM

https://www.linux.com/learn/weekend-...s-color-scheme
and
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/turn-o...-in-vi-or-vim/

with this
Go look in the VIM config using an editor that shows line numbers. VIM might work.

Goto line 20 and see what it is saying for vim to do, and I'd look for a file called syntax.vim from the system you pulled it from then put it on that External SD Card whereever it needs to be for VIM to find it.

VIM is looking for it in that path statment. The config file line 20 maybe telling it to look there, so you might just have to get that file in question put it on the SD Card then edit that config line to tell it where it is at to eliminate that warning/error.

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Thanks BW-userx I think I know why now.. Line 20 is where it enables syntax highlighting, but im missing the files /syntax/syntax.vim... So I think I just have to redownload vim, get those files, and then transfer them over to /usr/share/vim/vim74/.. That should give me colors and solve the error.. Thanks for helping me troubleshoot!