Thank you gentlemen, I have a working GUI Vim now on Ubuntu. One last problem.
gvim :ver VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Nov 24 2016 16:44:48) Included patches: 1-1689 Extra patches: 8.0.0056 Modified by pkg-vim-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Compiled by pkg-vim-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Huge version with GTK2-GNOME GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): cd /vim8/src ./vim -g :ver VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 18, compiled Nov 7 2018 10:51:26) Included patches: 1-511 Compiled by me Huge version with GTK2 GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): I would have thought running the make install should have fixed that up. $ ls -la /usr/bin/gvim lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Nov 5 19:02 /usr/bin/gvim -> /etc/alternatives/gvim* I had to (I did a --prefix=/usr): unlink /usr/bin/gvim make install Then it setup my gvim: $ ls -la /usr/bin/gvim lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 7 12:48 /usr/bin/gvim -> vim* David On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 1:48 PM Dominique Pellé <dominique.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 2:30 AM David Fishburn <dfishburn....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > I am having a hard time getting gvim to compile on Ubuntu 16.04 > ...snip... > > I can't really think what else to try to install to get the GUI support. > > Try this: > > # First install package needed to build vim > $ sudo apt-get build-dep vim-gnome > > # Then build your own vim from sources > $ cd vim > $ rm src/auto/config.cache > $ ./configure --with-features=huge --enable-gui=gtk2 > $ make - j8 > $ make test > $ sudo make install > > or configure with gtk3 with: > $ ./configure --with-features=huge --enable-gui=gtk3 > > Regards > Dominique > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
