| 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839 | <sect2><title>Installation of Vim</title><para>If a user doesn't like vim to be installed as an editor on the LFS system,he may want to download an alternative and install an editor he prefers. There are a few hints how to install different editorsavailable at <ulinkurl="http://cvs.linuxfromscratch.org/index.cgi/hints/editors/">http://cvs.linuxfromscratch.org/index.cgi/hints/editors/</ulink></para><para>Both the vim-rt and vim-src packages need to be unpacked to install Vim.Both packages will unpack their files into the vim-5.7 directory. Thiswon't overwrite any files from the other package. So it doesn't matterin which order it is done. Install Vim by running the following commands:</para><blockquote><literallayout>	<userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &&</userinput>	<userinput>make &&</userinput>	<userinput>make install &&</userinput>	<userinput>cd /usr/bin &&</userinput>	<userinput>ln -s vim vi</userinput></literallayout></blockquote><para>If a user plans on installing the X Window system on his LFSsystem, he might want to re-compile Vim after he has installed X. Vimcomes with a nice GUI version of the editor which requires X and a fewother libraries to be installed. For more information read the Vimdocumentation.</para></sect2>
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