topic Re: install software in Operating System - HP-UX

install software

UniRock — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:06:21 GMT

Hi All,

I have a vi editor for my ia64, hpux 11.23 srver, how can i know the version of my present vi editor?
and
Please tell me how to install it from scratch.

Thanks,
RKK

Re: install software

Torsten. — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:11:52 GMT

Do the following:

# whereis vi
vi: /usr/bin/vi /usr/share/man/man1.Z/vi.1

# what /usr/bin/vi

Re: install software

UniRock — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:32:10 GMT

thnx Torsten,
while installing through TUI i can see a number of files with .txt, .vim, .ps extnsion and i have to select one to go further and install new vi editor.
I dont know which one to select.
Am i going right?

Re: install software

Torsten. — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:35:51 GMT

Why do you think you need to reinstall vi?

Re: install software

UniRock — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:44:20 GMT

Acutally i got "vim" so I thought of trying it on a test server.
I had installed it but then how can i use this vim?

# swlist -l product | grep vim
vim 7.1 vim

Re: install software

Torsten. — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:52:39 GMT

VIM is not VI!

vi is part of the core OS (from swlist):

HPUXBaseOS.TextEditors.EDITORS2: /usr/bin/vi

VIM is a add-on.

http://hpux.asknet.de/hppd/hpux/Editors/vim-7.1/

Re: install software

UniRock — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:12:47 GMT

thnx but I downloaded it from the same source and installed it but now when i am opening the vi editor, its all the same as before.
How should I use this vim?

# swlist -l fileset | grep vim
# vim 7.1 vim
vim.vim-RUN

-RKK

Re: install software

Torsten. — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:18:54 GMT

vi is vi, not vim.

/usr/local/bin/vim

Make sure to install all Run-time dependencies!

Re: install software

Srimalik — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:40:49 GMT

vi is vi, vi is not vim
vim is vim, vim is not vi
gvim is gvim, gvim is not vi, gvim is not vim

If you are interested in more fancy things, you can also try cream
http://cream.sourceforge.net/features.html

Never tried to build this in HP, but you can try.