Update to Vim8 on Centos 7

Upgrade vim

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# Method 1: Install using rpm packages (credit to DarkMukke)
#

rpm -Uvh http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/gf-release-latest.gf.el7.noarch.rpm
rpm --import http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/RPM-GPG-KEY-gf.el7

# WARNING: removing  vim-minimal uninstalls `sudo` if you skip the second step
#          make sure to at least run `yum install sudo`
yum -y remove vim-minimal vim-common vim-enhanced
yum -y --enablerepo=gf-plus install vim-enhanced sudo


# This script will stop here if you run this gist from the command line by
# curling to the **raw** gist: `bash <(curl -s https://gist.githubuser......)`
exit


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# Method 2: Install by building from scratch - contains a lot ot dependancies
#

# Setup essential build environment
yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum -y install ncurses-devel git-core

# Get source
git clone https://github.com/vim/vim && cd vim

# OPTIONAL: configure to provide a comprehensive vim - You can skip this step
#  and go  straight to `make` which will configure, compile and link with
#  defaults.

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-features=huge --enable-multibyte --with-python-config-dir=/usr/lib/python2.7/config --enable-pythoninterp=yes

# Build and install
make && sudo make install


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# Final Check
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# After installation check your setup with
vim --version

# You should see...
# VIM - Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled Aug  2 2017 16:29:21)
# Included patches: 1-839

Junk !
No repo found there.

Not junk, this was the right solution until last week (used this for like half a year)

this repo seems up : https://centos.pkgs.org/7/ghettoforge-plus-x86_64/vim-enhanced-8.0.003-1.gf.el7.x86_64.rpm.html

So new install notes

rpm -Uvh http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/gf-release-latest.gf.el7.noarch.rpm
rpm --import http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/RPM-GPG-KEY-gf.el7
yum -y remove vim-minimal vim-common vim-enhanced sudo
yum -y --enablerepo=gf-plus install vim-enhanced sudo

So new install notes

rpm -Uvh http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/gf-release-latest.gf.el7.noarch.rpm
rpm --import http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/RPM-GPG-KEY-gf.el7
yum -y remove vim-minimal vim-common vim-enhanced sudo
yum -y --enablerepo=gf-plus install vim-enhanced sudo

Hmm if you do that you are actually removing sudo on the 3rd line?!

I have the following issue:
Transaction check error:
file /usr/share/man/man1/vim.1.gz from install of vim-common-2:8.0.003-1.gf.el7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package vim-minimal-2:7.4.160-4.el7.x86_64

Error Summary

I got it working by hand if it helps:
wget http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/el/7/plus/x86_64/vim-enhanced-8.0.003-1.gf.el7.x86_64.rpm
wget http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/el/7/plus/x86_64/vim-common-8.0.003-1.gf.el7.x86_64.rpm
wget http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/el/7/plus/x86_64/vim-minimal-8.0.003-1.gf.el7.x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh vim-minimal-8.0.003-1.gf.el7.x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh vim-common-8.0.003-1.gf.el7.x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh vim-enhanced-8.0.003-1.gf.el7.x86_64.rpm

Just compile and install:

git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git
cd vim
#make distclean  # if you build Vim before
make -j8
sudo make install
cp src/vim /usr/bin

So new install notes

rpm -Uvh http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/gf-release-latest.gf.el7.noarch.rpm
rpm --import http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/RPM-GPG-KEY-gf.el7
yum -y remove vim-minimal vim-common vim-enhanced sudo
yum -y --enablerepo=gf-plus install vim-enhanced sudo

Hmm if you do that you are actually removing sudo on the 3rd line?!

I have the following issue:
Transaction check error:
file /usr/share/man/man1/vim.1.gz from install of vim-common-2:8.0.003-1.gf.el7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package vim-minimal-2:7.4.160-4.el7.x86_64

Error Summary

if you don't remove sudo you can't uninstall vim-minimal, as it is a dependency, that is what the conflict is about
don't worry as long as you don't close your session or are able to login as root, you don't actually need sudo, and you reinstall it with the upgraded vim, the line after

Getting below error

[XXX~]# sudo yum update vim*
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror

File contains no section headers.
file: file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mcepl-vim8-epel-7.repo, line: 2
'<!doctype html>\n'
[XXX~]#

how to fix?

how to fix?

remove the /etc/yum.repos.d/mcepl-vim8-epel-7.repo by hand and execute the steps from @DarkMukke

rpm -Uvh http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/gf-release-latest.gf.el7.noarch.rpm
rpm --import http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/RPM-GPG-KEY-gf.el7
yum -y remove vim-minimal vim-common vim-enhanced sudo
yum -y --enablerepo=gf-plus install vim-enhanced sudo

Environment:

[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core)
[root@localhost ~]#

After applying:

rpm -Uvh http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/gf-release-latest.gf.el7.noarch.rpm
rpm --import http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/RPM-GPG-KEY-gf.el7
yum -y remove vim-minimal vim-common vim-enhanced sudo
yum -y --enablerepo=gf-plus install vim-enhanced sudo

I found it left vim-filesystem on 7:

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa |grep vim
vim-filesystem-7.4.160-4.el7.x86_64
vim-minimal-8.0.003-1.gf.el7.x86_64
vim-enhanced-8.0.003-1.gf.el7.x86_64
vim-common-8.0.003-1.gf.el7.x86_64

So I suggest to append vim-filesystem into @DarkMukke's solution.

Getting below error

[XXX~]# sudo yum update vim*
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror

File contains no section headers.
file: file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mcepl-vim8-epel-7.repo, line: 2
'<!doctype html>\n'
[XXX~]#

some issue as well.

So new install notes

rpm -Uvh http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/gf-release-latest.gf.el7.noarch.rpm
rpm --import http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/RPM-GPG-KEY-gf.el7
yum -y remove vim-minimal vim-common vim-enhanced sudo
yum -y --enablerepo=gf-plus install vim-enhanced sudo

Notice that you must perform this instructions sequentially under sudo su or as a single bash script.
Otherwise, you would occasionally uninstall sudo.

rm /etc/yum.repos.d/mcepl-vim8-epel-7.repo

Thanks everyone for the discovery and feedback - I have added an update to the gist to fix the issue that the old repository listing is no longer available.

Notable mention goes to @dmakushin

Thank you! The compilation instructions continue to work on vim 8.2. & Centos 7

Great resource.

with a few changes I think this also work for configuring the build and install step (my python setup is different)

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-features=huge --enable-multibyte --with-python-config-dir=/usr/lib64/python3.6/config-3.6m-x86_64-linux-gnu/ --enable-pythoninterp=yes

Important to mention that vim --version will still return the old version (7.4 in my case) even after upgrading (I've only tried Method 2, compiling from source), which is very confusing, especially if you try to do this through a script and check the version.
In order to see the correct version, you should log out and log back in.

dnf copr enable hnakamur/vim
dnf install vim

vim --version -> 8.1.2300-1.el7

Thanks https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/hnakamur/vim/

Thanks https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/hnakamur/vim/