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VIM RPM using YUM to download

JhilFeb 16 2017 — edited Feb 18 2017

Dear All,

Oracle Linux 5.5 , i am using for personal usage

I am trying to install vim. I do not find appropriate version of vim rpm for my kernel version.

# vim f1

bash: vam: command not found

# uname -a

Linux AUSDEV.COM 2.6.18-194.el5 #1 SMP Mon Mar 29 20:06:41 EDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

>> Is this right procedure to download VIM using YUM

# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/vim.repo

[vim]

name=Oracle VIM for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

baseurl=http://yum.oracle.com/repo/vim/RHEL5/$basearch/

gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle

gpgcheck=1

enabled=1

# vi install vim
or 
2) Where do i get vim rpm related to my kernal version ?

Thanks in advance.

This post has been answered by Dude! on Feb 18 2017

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