2. Installing vim
To install vim on Debian simply become the root user and type this at the command line:
bash# apt-get install vim vim-rt |
The package vim contains the executable, and the vim-rt package contains all the files necessary to get syntax highlighting to work.
 | If you want to install the graphical version of vim install the packages vim-gtk and vim-rt. |
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If you're going to be doing programming, you'll also want to install the package exuberant-ctags. |