[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I seem to have a problem where I want to upgrade my version of gvim
> for linux but am somewhat confused by the site....
>
> there seems to be a vim-7.1.tar.bz2.... but I have no idea what a bz2
> file is and the site doesn't explain it (that I can find...).
>
> so I tried to use vim-6.4-src1.tar.gz and vim-6.4-src2.tar.gz and
> untar'ed them.
> according to the site you need to type "make install" and everything
> will work (assuming a c compiler and such...) but unfortunately, I
> couldn't find a "makefile"....
>
> Not sure why this couldn't be setup to be as easy as installing gvim
> for my windows box...
>   
bunzip2 vim-7.1.tar.bz2
tar -xf vim-7.1.tar
cd vim71
configure
make
make install

Regards,
Chip Campbell


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