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Jlennon321
Jlennon321

Reputation: 228

python 2 support in vim

I am trying to set up YouCompleteMe, a code-completion plugin for vim. When I run vim, it gives me this error message: "YouCompleteMe unavailable: requires python 2.x". I have the correct version of python installed on my ubuntu machine and this confused me. After some research, I have found that I needed python2 support in vim, not just on my system (https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe/issues/35). How can I do this? I was unable to find a similar answer anywhere.

Thanks in advance for the help!

Upvotes: 10

Views: 10248

Answers (3)

henices
henices

Reputation: 349

It means your need python2 support in vim, not just in your system. To test whether your vim support python, execute the following command:

vim --version | grep python

If you find "+python" in the output your vim support python2, "-python" means your vim don't support python2, you need recompile vim with python flag via the vim source.

On windows platform try the following command:

nmake -f Make_mvc.mak FEATURES=huge PYTHON=D:\Python27 PYTHON_VER=27 GUI=yes IME=yes

on Linux platform try the folowing command:

./configure --enable-pythoninterp --with-python-config-dir=/usr/lib/python2.6/config make make install

more details see:

compiling vim with python support

https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe/issues/35

Upvotes: 4

hyc
hyc

Reputation: 21

The problem was that the YouCompleteMe fails if both python3 and python2 support are compiled into Vim. Both version can't be used so the first one touched will prevent the other one from working.

Upvotes: 2

Christian Ternus
Christian Ternus

Reputation: 8492

Try aptitude install vim-nox or aptitude install vim-gnome if you want the GUI. vim-python is a virtual package provided by either of these.

By default, Ubuntu has vim-tiny installed, which has a bunch of the options switched off.

Upvotes: 8

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