Rodolfo Bandeira
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How to install VIM on OpenBSD

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As you already know, openbsd comes with VI and not VIM. Just for security purpose as well. So, let’s install VIM on OpenBSD ?

# echo $PKG_PATH

#export PKG_PATH=https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/`uname -r`/packages/`arch -s`    
#echo $PKG_PATH                                                                   
https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.6/packages/amd64
#pkg_add vim
quirks-2.9 signed on 2014-07-31T22:37:55Z
Ambiguous: choose package for vim
 a       0: <None>
         1: vim-7.4.135p2-gtk2
         2: vim-7.4.135p2-gtk2-perl-python-ruby
         3: vim-7.4.135p2-gtk2-perl-python3-ruby
         4: vim-7.4.135p2-no_x11
         5: vim-7.4.135p2-no_x11-perl-python-ruby
         6: vim-7.4.135p2-no_x11-perl-python3-ruby
Your choice: 4
vim-7.4.135p2-no_x11: ok
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