On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Charles E Campbell Jr
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  [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

I find the method using aap much simpler:

http://www.a-a-p.org/ports.html

It downloads all patches automatically.

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