not able to install vim

arun natarajan · 10-31-2015, 01:43 AM

hi,

when i am trying to install vim, its says, its already installed.
when i am trying to uninstall vim, its says, its not installed yet.
Pls clear this confusion to me and help me to work with installed vim.

[root@localhost Server]# rpm -ivh vim*
warning: vim-common-7.0.109-6.el5.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package vim-minimal-7.0.109-6.el5.x86_64 is already installed

[root@localhost Server]# rpm -e vim-minimal-7.0.109-6.el5.x86_64.rpm
error: package vim-minimal-7.0.109-6.el5.x86_64.rpm is not installed

[root@localhost Server]# vim a.txt
-bash: vim: command not found

[root@localhost Server]# /sbin/vim a.txt
-bash: /sbin/vim: No such file or directory

[root@localhost Server]# /bin/vim a.txt
-bash: /bin/vim: No such file or directory

berndbausch · 10-31-2015, 05:36 AM

Code:

rpm -e vim-minimal-7.0.109-6.el5.x86_64.rpm

There is no such package indeed. The package is named vim-minimal-7.0.109-6.el5.x86_64, not vim-minimal-7.0.109-6.el5.x86_64.rpm.

Lesson: Don't use TABTAB when specifying the names of packages.
Consolation: Happens to me about half of the time.

Now the question is, why can't you run vim. You might want to check your path. Also, dump out the list of files in the vim-minimal package; I am not sure if it actually contains vim, perhaps just vi.

Code:

rpm -ql vim-minimal

Lesson 2: There is usually no need to type the full name of the package, including architecture and version.

michaelk · 10-31-2015, 06:38 AM

vim is located in /usr/bin which should be in all users path environment.

To see what packages are already installed:
rpm -qa | grep vim

Doug G · 10-31-2015, 12:54 PM

Assuming you're on a Centos system, it's better to use yum rather than rpm to manipulate packages.

Quote:

yum remove vim-minimal
yum install vim

Also yum list installed vim* will tell you what's already installed

jefro · 10-31-2015, 05:28 PM

Also ideas

vim might be an alias to other program.

I'd also try find -vim or such.

Ztcoracat · 10-31-2015, 07:35 PM

Do a yum package search on vim.

John VV · 11-01-2015, 11:02 PM

that "el5" in the name means this rpm is for a RHEL5 or Cent5 install

rhel5 is the current LEGACY hardware operating system
-- and it is showing it's age , as in it IS "over the hill"

so the version of vi you can install on the current RHEL 5.11 or CentOS 5.11 is going to be a bit OLD
-- up to date for the older os

use yum to install software vi needs a few prerequisites installed
yum will install the needed rpm's

Code:

su -
yum search vi
--------- then from the list -install it-----------
yum install vim