On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:39:42 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm a long time RH/Fedora sysadmin/user and have decided to use Debian > 3.1r5 on my server at home. I downloaded the bootable Network CD > (180MB) and then via the config after boot I installed additional > packages. > > Everything is working fine and I installed vim 6.3 (current stable > version) via aptitude and all works well. Except that I want vim 7. > It is available in the testing and unstable repositories, but when I > do an "aptitude install vim" it wants to remove my current kernel. > > I also tried to install vim 7 from source, but when compiling it > determined that I didn't have ncurses installed. Again aptitude wants > to delete my current running kernel but didn't say anything about > installing ncurses. > > Just wondering if others have had this experience and know of any > fixes.
You can try the backported vim packages available here: http://backports.org/debian/pool/main/v/vim/ http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
