Dove si trova Vim su Ubuntu Linux e come si installa?

“which vim” tells you where it is.

1. matthew@bigfoot:~$ which vim 
2. /usr/bin/vim 

On my system it’s /usr/bin/vim.

If you didn’t install it from source, it’s most certainly installed using a dpkg package and most probably from APT.

Per la maggior parte dei pacchetti puoi usare "dpkg -S name" per dirti quale pacchetto ha installato il file.

Ma VIM è un po' speciale, perché usa il sistema Debian alternatives (DebianAlternatives - Debian Wiki) dato che più pacchetti possono fornirlo. Perché lo so? Perché se fai "ls -l /usr/bin/vim", ti dice che il file è un link simbolico a /etc/alternatives/vim.

1. matthew@bigfoot:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/vim 
2. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Sep 15 22:24 /usr/bin/vim -> /etc/alternatives/vim 

As it turned out, /etc/alternatives/vim is itself another symbolic link, that, on my system, points to /usr/bin/vim.basic

1. matthew@bigfoot:~$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/vim 
2. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Sep 15 22:24 /etc/alternatives/vim -> /usr/bin/vim.basic 

Finally, we can figure out which package is responsible for it.

1. matthew@bigfoot:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/vim.basic 
2. vim: /usr/bin/vim.basic 

It’s the vim package! As you might have guessed.