[plug] re-installing vim over vi using debian potato

Russell Steicke r.steicke at bom.gov.au
Fri Feb 15 11:12:22 WST 2002


On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 02:45:06AM +0000, Psyphen Codewalker wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone knows anything about how to re-install
> ViM( Vi Improved) over standard Vi in Debian Potato?

If you have them both installed from debian packages, which is quite
normal, then perhaps you need to do:

  update-alternatives --config vi

as root.  The alternatives system is one of the things I really like
about debian.  Very neat.


-- 
Russell Steicke

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