How to install vim in Trident Linux (Void linux)?

Written by Administrator on Sunday April 19, 2020

VIm is very powerful text editor for Linux system. Trident Linux is using xbps package manager, we can use it to install vim:

$ sudo xbps-install vim

The wait untili all needed packages are downloaded and installed:

3 packages will be downloaded:

3 packages will be installed:
  xxd-8.2.0496_1 vim-common-8.2.0496_1 vim-8.2.0496_1 

Size to download:             8857KB
Size required on disk:          32MB
Space available on disk:       280GB

Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

[*] Downloading packages
[ 0%] xxd-8.2.0496_1.x86_64.xbps.sig: [512B 100%] 6757KB/s ETA: 00m00xxd-8.2.0496_1.x86_64.xbps.sig: 512B [avg rate: 6757KB/s]
xxd-8.2.0496_1.x86_64.xbps: 13KB [avg rate: 68MB/s]
xxd-8.2.0496_1: verifying RSA signature...
[ 0%] vim-common-8.2.0496_1.noarch.xbps.sig: [512B 100%] 7692KB/s ETAvim-common-8.2.0496_1.noarch.xbps.sig: 512B [avg rate: 7692KB/s]
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[*] Collecting package files
xxd-8.2.0496_1: collecting files...
vim-common-8.2.0496_1: collecting files...
vim-8.2.0496_1: collecting files...

[*] Unpacking packages
xxd-8.2.0496_1: unpacking ...
vim-common-8.2.0496_1: unpacking ...
vim-common-8.2.0496_1: registered 'vi' alternatives group
vim-8.2.0496_1: unpacking ...
vim-8.2.0496_1: registered 'vim' alternatives group
Creating 'vim' alternatives group symlink: vim -> /usr/bin/vim-normal

[*] Configuring unpacked packages
xxd-8.2.0496_1: configuring ...
xxd-8.2.0496_1: installed successfully.
vim-common-8.2.0496_1: configuring ...
Updating GTK+ icon cache for /usr/share/icons/hicolor...
Updating GTK+ icon cache for /usr/share/icons/locolor...
vim-common-8.2.0496_1: installed successfully.
vim-8.2.0496_1: configuring ...
vim-8.2.0496_1: installed successfully.

3 downloaded, 3 installed, 0 updated, 3 configured, 0 removed.

Now vim is installed. Let's check it:

$ vim -v

output:

vim version in Trident Linux