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My vim was installed on debian8 with the apt-get command.
apt-get install vim
$ find / -name 'autoload'
/usr/share/vim/vim74/autoload
$ find / -name '.vim'
The above command can find nothing.
$ ls /etc/vim
vimrc vimrc.tiny
Is my vim installed on /usr/share/vim properly?
Where is my vim installed?
If you installed through apt the following sequence should get you to the Vim installation.
From inside Vim,
:echo $VIMRUNTIME
/usr/share/vim/vim74
You could look in here and you would discover the Vim files, but if you wanted a more programmatic, portable approach, you could then use dpkg i.e.
dpkg -S, -- search for file owner:.deb package/s are responsible for the path /usr/share/vim/vim74.$ dpkg -S /usr/share/vim/vim74
vim-tiny, vim-runtime, vim-common: /usr/share/vim/vim7
These are the packages, so you can use dpkg --list-files to tell you where all the files belonging to the packages are. For example, if you run
dpkg --list-files vim-runtime
you'll get a dump of file names, which will tell you where the bulk of the vim installation is.
You'll see that on Debian and Ubuntu, most of Vim's files are in /usr/share/. 1
1folder for architecture independent files as per the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
/usr/share/vim/vim74 in a "monolithic" configuration - was they weren't following FHS. But I guess because vim's code is architecture independent? its following FHS after all? I have edited answer as I dont actually know that answer to that.
Mar 6, 2016 at 13:50
You are not supposed to do anything with the default runtime so where Vim was installed doesn't matter.
Whatever customization you want to do, do it in $HOME.
$HOME, but finding the system install directory is a legitimate request. The other answer of :echo $VIMRUNTIME is a good starting point.
which vimbut muru is right when he asks what problem are you trying to solve. You should edit your question and give more details about that.dpkg -L vim | grep binaptanddpkgdon't install vim in a single package "vim", its organised as mulitple dependency packages, sodpkg -L vimisn't necessarily going to be useful. e.g. forvim-gtkit doesn't even mention where the$VIMRUNTIMEis at allapt-get install vim. So he can see what is installed with the provided command. And yes, on Ubuntu there exists a basic package vim. Seeapt-cache show vimYes there are other vim flavor packages. Then one should check which package was installed and can use that package name instead of vim in the above command.