ElfNet.org

Having spent the last several years (since 2002 in fact) as a FreeBSD junky, I wanted to spend a little time setting up a Linux server.  Of course I’ve ran and used various Linux distributions for many years however when setting up a system to work as a server you soon notice that there’s holes in your knowledge! At least I did.

So the first thing that puzzled me was the location of my favourite editor, I typed in the vim command to get presented with a standard “command not found” message.  After a quick search I found that the system had vim.tiny installed which was great for most things, although since I spend a great deal of time in the editor I wanted the whole fat version, diets aren’t for geeks.

It turns out that you can no longer install vim with apt-get install vim-full - instead you’ll want to make sure that you have vim-common installed.

Once that’s done you should be able to make sure everything worked with the following command: