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Installing the latest version of Vim from source on CentOS 6.5

I noticed that the version of vim on my CentOS 6.5 installation was outdated. Here are the steps I followed to install the latest version from source.

First, switch to root user

$ sudo su

Make sure that mercurial is installed

$ yum install mercurial

I also needed to install the ncurses library

$ yum install ncurses-devel

Fetch the latest source from googlecode and change to the created directory

$ cd /usr/local/src/
$ hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ vim
$ cd vim

Configure it

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-compiledby="Cody" --with-features=huge --enable-rubyinterp --enable-pythoninterp

Make it

$ make && make install

You should now be able to use the latest version of vim.

$ ls -la /usr/bin | grep vim
$ which vim

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