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duff18
duff18

Reputation: 752

Install vim without root privilege

There are several posts on the internet about this, but I haven't found a suitable solution for my case.

This is what I've tried so far:

 You need to install a terminal library; for example ncurses.
 Or specify the name of the library with --with-tlib.

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gnatlink: error when calling /usr/bin/gcc
gnatmake: *** link failed.

/usr/lib64/libncurses.so
/usr/lib64/libncursesw.so

so I've tried to play around with LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH, but to no avail.

Any suggestion ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3502

Answers (2)

Christian Fosli
Christian Fosli

Reputation: 1857

Just thought I'd mention an alternative solution.

Neovim provides pre-built packages which you could simply download and run. Follow instructions from their GitHub releases page.

Now, Neovim is a vim-fork, so you wouldn't be getting the "original" vim. But, they are very similar, and the install process is a lot simpler.

Upvotes: 0

duff18
duff18

Reputation: 752

As guessed by Kaz in the comment above, ncurses does have the --without-ada option in its ./configure to disable the Ada build. This allowed me to install ncurses and consequently vim !

Upvotes: 2

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