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Sai Krishna
Sai Krishna

Reputation: 45

How can we install vi without the vim package in ubuntu

I want to install only vi in my Ubuntu box. I don't want to install the complete vim package which includes vi. I am trying to reduce the image size of my OS including all the packages so that I have more space to install other packages.

I am open to look into other lightweight text-editor alternatives also but it would be better if I stick with vi.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 8587

Answers (3)

mike3996
mike3996

Reputation: 17537

Busybox contains a light vi implementation. I think you can symlink /usr/bin/vi -> /bin/busybox or wherever busybox resides in Ubuntu systems. At least this is on my gentoo:

(~) file `which vi`
/usr/bin/vi: symbolic link to ../../bin/busybox

On Ubuntu (16&18 at least) symlink with: ln -s /bin/busybox /bin/vi

If busybox is not installed already it has its own package: apt install busybox

Upvotes: 1

Arun Kaushal
Arun Kaushal

Reputation: 631

You can install vim-tiny package to install vi without vim. Please run the command:

sudo apt-get install vim-tiny

Upvotes: 3

romainl
romainl

Reputation: 196781

If you really want vi you can find it here: http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/

Upvotes: 1

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