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Hi, on the ArchLinux home page there is a recommendation to remove view before updating vim http://www.archlinux.org/news/445/
How can view be restored after the update? It seems not to be created automatically.
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Come on, don't tell me this is so difficult that nobody knows...
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┌─[ 12:29 ][ blue:~ ]
└─> pacman -Qo `which view`
/usr/bin/view is owned by vi 1.81.6-2
┌─[ 12:30 ][ blue:~ ]
└─> pacman -Q vi
vi 1.81.6-2
┌─[ 12:30 ][ blue:~ ]
└─> pacman -Q vim
vim 7.2.218-1
did you install vi or just vim?
//github/
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pacman -Q vi
vi 7.2.65-1
[djszapi@djszapi mytourbook_bin]$ pacman -Q vim
vim 7.2.166-1
which view
which: no view in (/opt/msp430/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/opt/java/bin:/opt/java/jre/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/bin/perlbin/site:/usr/bin/perlbin/vendor:/usr/bin/perlbin/core:/opt/qt/bin:/opt/tigcc/bin:/usr/blackfin/bin)
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/usr/bin/view is just a symlink to /usr/bin/vim on my system.
ln -s vim /usr/bin/view
will mimic that on yours.
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As I understand it:
The old packaging of vi (the version now still in core) just built a slim version of vim. The old packaging of vim (version still in extra) built a fuller version of vim that depended on the vi package, so that it could rely on the common vim-files that the other package installed on your disk and wouldn't compete for which of the two packages owned them.
The new packaging (the versions of vi and vim now in testing, vi 1.81.6-2 and vim 7.2.218-1 do things differently. Now vi is a different binary that's unrelated to vim (I think it's nvi). The new vim packaging installs all the common vim-files itself.
I think you should use either both the vi and vim from core/extra, or the two packages from testing. If you tried to keep the vi from core and install the vim from testing, then they'd be competing for which package owned files on your system.
Last edited by Profjim (2009-07-12 00:13:33)
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You can use my vimgdb packages from aur too, it has got gdb support for development purposes.
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Thanks to everybody for the replies, and sorry for waiting so long for answering. Now I installed the package vim from the core repository (
pacman -Sy vim
) as it has been suggested, and finally I have view and vim commands again! Thank you once more for the replies.
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