Install Ruby Vim Command Without Root

This post intend to write down the step for installing ruby and vim command line tools, without root access. In addition, ncurses is the prerequisities of installing ruby and vim. Also, please install ruby first in order to enable rubyinterp.

  1. download ncurses
  2. tar xvf ncurses-5.9.tar.gz
  3. sh ./configure --prefix=/home/bobby/tools/ncurses ##--with-shared
  4. make
  5. make install
  6. download ruby
  7. sh ./configure --prefix=/home/bobby/tools/ruby1.9 --with-tlib=ncurses
  8. make
  9. make install
  10. download from vim
  11. bzip2 -cd vimxxx.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
  12. edit .bash_profile set CPPLAGS="-I/home/bobby/tools/ncurses/include" LDFLAGS="-L/home/bobby/tools/ncurses/lib" export CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
  13. sh ./configure --prefix=/home/bobby/tools/vim7.4 --disable-selinux --enbale-gui=no --without-x --disable-gpm --disable-nls --with-tilib=ncurses --enable-multibyte --enable-rubyinterp --enable-perlinterp --enable-pythoninterp
  14. make
  15. make install
  16. edit ~/.bashrc alias vim="/home/bobby/tools/vim7.4/bin/vim"
  17. edit ~/.vimrc set synatx on set nocompatible set backspace=2
  18. setup vimruntime in order to let vim find the syntax env, please edit .bash_profile export VIMRUNTIME=/home/bobby/tools/preinstall/vim74/runtime