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I'm running CentOS 6.5 and the only Vim packages available from yum are for Vim 7.2, even though Vim 7.4 is now out. A lot of the Vim plugins I typically use are only compatible with Vim 7.3 and above.

Is there a way to get 7.3 or 7.4 as a package install from some third party rather than the official yum repo?

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  • I'm just throwing this as a possible solution. Compiling vim from source isn't very hard if you already have all the required libraries already installed.
    – FDinoff
    Mar 31, 2014 at 22:34
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    Funny you ask…
    – romainl
    Mar 31, 2014 at 23:32
  • @FDinoff, Yeah I did compile from source for the time being. While it isn't that hard it takes significantly longer to complete than a simple yum install. If this were just a one time install for myself that wouldn't be a big deal, but this is going on all our Vagrant VMs for each project so the extra time is compounded on 2 axis where 1 axis is number of developer and the other is number of projects.
    – bigtunacan
    Apr 1, 2014 at 12:58
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    If you've compiled from source already, can't you just make the compile directory accessible on all the machines and do a make install on each of them?
    – Ben
    Apr 1, 2014 at 16:07
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    @Ben, sure I can put it on a file share or something. I'm really just surprised that there isn't a package for this already. It's not like I'm asking for something cutting edge here. Vim 7.3 was released in August of 2010. I would have thought since it's been 3 and 1/2 years there would be a package available by now.
    – bigtunacan
    Apr 1, 2014 at 16:20

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I found this repo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/cathay4t:/misc-rhel6/CentOS_CentOS-6/x86_64/ which has vim rpms. Worked for me on a rhel 6 host. Link was found from this blog post http://cathay4t.blogspot.com/2014/09/compile-vim-7473-in-rhel-6.html

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