I'm trying to get the desert color scheme to work in vim. So far I have my colors folder
~/.vim/colors/desert.vim
And in my .vimrc file I have the line
colorscheme desert
Syntax highlighting turns on, but without the correct colors. I'm accessing vim through iTerm on macosx. I've tried setting this up on both my local machine as well as a remote ubuntu box. On the local machine vim is at version 7.2.108 and on the remote machine vim is at version 7.1.138.
I'm just starting out with cli so let me know what I'm leaving out.