On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 11:12:16AM -0500, Andy Zbikowski wrote: > > Redhat installs for you vim-minimal.whatever.rpm. Redhat also has > > packages for more complete RPMs with a lot of those other features > > turned on. Take a look at the CD again for those vim packages and > > install one of them. Debian does the same thing. > > Whoever packaged VIM for Debian was smoking serious crack. vim and vim-gtk > make sence, but they should both depend on, or at least suggest, vim-rt > (kinda helps to have the runtime files...) I don't get it...maybe there is a > logical explaination somewhere... Well, vim, vim-gtk, etc. do recommend vimi-rt - /var/lib/dpkg/available : Package: vim Priority: optional Section: editors Installed-Size: 600 Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma at debian.org> Architecture: i386 Version: 5.6.070-1 Replaces: vim-rt, vim-tiny, vim-perl, vim-python, vim-tcl, vim-gtk Provides: editor Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libgpmg1 (>= 1.14-16), libncurses5 Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.6.8) Recommends: vim-rt Suggests: ctags Conflicts: vim-tiny, vim-perl, vim-python, vim-tcl, vim-tty, vim-gtk Filename: dists/stable/main/binary-i386/editors/vim_5.6.070-1.deb Size: 316832 MD5sum: d1505d321d5eda0f3b47653e7705587a Description: Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi. Many new features have been added: multi level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, on-line help, filename completion, block operations, etc. . This packages contains the vim program itself. The runtime-files are in the vim-rt package. It has been build with all the normal features but without any X support. So the vim packages recommends vim-gtk, but do not depend on it. Let me guess - you installed vim with apt-get. Unfortunately, apt-get will only automatically try to install packages that are depended on, not those that are suggested or recommended. To get a look at what packages are suggested you have to use dselect (or possibly one of the apt front-end like gnome-apt or console-apt). As for why vim-rt is only suggested by the other vim packages, I'm not sure. Maybe if you're only use vim as a vi replacement you don't need the runtime files? I just tried, and vim seems to work fine without vim-rt. Of course, the syntax highlighting disappears. And I'm pretty sure there is a good reason for it, the vim maintainer, Wickert Akkerman is the Debian Project Leader. He's probably pretty likely to set the dependancies for good reason ;) -- Jim Crumley | crumley at fields.space.umn.edu | Work: 612 624-6804 or -0378 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org