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Difficulty
Easy

Build VIM on centos 6 ,7

You should remove all vim packages before the following. lua-devel package does not exist in 8.0.1905

yum remove vim

Install centos compilers

yum groupinstall 'Development tools'

Requirements

yum install -y ncurses ncurses-devel lua-devel.x86_64

Build & Install

git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git
cd vim/src
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-features=huge --enable-rubyinterp --enable-pythoninterp --enable-luainterp
make
make install

Cleanup to recompile

make distclean