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Compile vim from source on Ubuntu 14.04
sudo apt-get remove --purge vim vim-runtime vim-gnome vim-tiny vim-common vim-gui-common
sudo apt-get build-dep vim-gnome
sudo apt-get install liblua5.1-dev luajit libluajit-5.1 python-dev ruby-dev libperl-dev mercurial libncurses5-dev libgnome2-dev libgnomeui-dev libgtk2.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libbonoboui2-dev libcairo2-dev libx11-dev libxpm-dev libxt-dev
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/share/vim
sudo rm /usr/bin/vim
sudo mkdir /usr/include/lua5.1/include
sudo mv /usr/include/lua5.1/*.h /usr/include/lua5.1/include/
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/luajit-2.0.0-beta9 /usr/bin/luajit
# Download vim sources
cd ~
hg clone https://code.google.com/p/vim/
cd vim
# Configure and and compile vim
./configure --with-features=huge \
--enable-multibyte \
--enable-rubyinterp \
--enable-pythoninterp \
--with-python-config-dir=/usr/lib/python2.7/config \
--enable-perlinterp \
--enable-luainterp \
--enable-cscope \
--prefix=/usr \
--enable-fail-if-missing \
--with-luajit \
--with-lua-prefix=/usr/include/lua5.1 \
--enable-largefile
make VIMRUNTIMEDIR=/usr/share/vim/vim74
sudo make install
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