You should probably just see if a vim-minimal package is installed. It has a plain vanilla text based verson of vim that gets installed in /bin/vi, so just invoke the editor as 'vi', not vim. More on the compile errors below. On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, John J. Boyer wrote: > Ok. I got the file unpacked, then did make install as > root. AAfter a while it returned to the prompt with error > messages to the effect that it found link error 127, Link > doesn't work at all. Make error 2. I noticed some > references to gtk, which I assume is the Gnome Tool Kit. You are right about gtk being the GUI libs it is trying to link with, and if you didn't install the GUI or X stuff, you probably don't have those libs, hence the errors. There is probably a makefile target you can spot near the top for compiling just the minimal text version, if you still really want to do it yourself. Or look for the binary vim-minimal package (you need vim-common too). LCR -- L. C. Robinson reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@onewest.net.invalid