How to install vim from tarball?

Recently my apt-get install didn’t work in Ubuntu 10.04 and I couldn’t spend time to fix the source list when it didn’t work straight forward. So looked around how to install vim from a tarball. This may be handy sometimes, here are the steps:

Download the Tarball

1. Goto https://www.vim.org/.
2. Go to Download. link: https://www.vim.org/download.php.
3. Click on Mirrors.
4. Choose an FTP mirror site, e.g. ftp://ftp.home.vim.org/pub/vim/ (Holland, Amsterdam).
5. Go inside the folder “unix”.
6. Here you will see all the vim tarballs. Choose the one you like, e.g. vim-8.0.tar.bz2.

Untar the tarball

Untar the tarball: [code language=”bash”] $ tar -xvjf vim-8.0.tar.bz2 [/code]

Compile and install

[code language=”bash”] $ cd vim80/src $ make distclean $ make $ sudo make install [/code]