Comments on: Ubuntu Linux Vim Sorry, the command is not available in this version: syntax on

By: Enes

Enes — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:24:54 +0000

Thanks for the post. It solved my problems…

By: puck

puck — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:45:10 +0000

It works on debian 6.0

By: Phani

Phani — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:21:20 +0000

Thanks for your help. It solved my problem.

By: ixjnpns

ixjnpns — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:28:30 +0000

same problem, thx for help!

By: Rossey

Rossey — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:06:30 +0000

I had the same problem on Ubuntu 9.10, but this didn’t fix the problem!

I had to remove vim, vim-tiny
sudo apt-get remove vim vim-tiny

And reinstall vim
sudo apt-get install vim

By: Akash

Akash — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:24:54 +0000

hey this was very useful, before trying your soln i tried
apt-get update vi ….. but no luck

what to say vivek,, u r just too good :)

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:37:31 +0000

This is long-winded answer which is why a few people didn’t understand it.

The answer is the default version doesn’t have syntax highlight, so install the full version using:

sudo apt-get install vim

By: Dhara

Dhara — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:59:06 +0000

Thanks a lot..it has solved my problem .Top of it other few errors are also solved …

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:40:18 +0000

Thanks for the tip! It solves my problem:)

By: nat

nat — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:26:10 +0000

I was getting the same error. Dint know that I was running vim.tiny :D…. Thanx for the post .. Thank you . :)

By: Jonatan Castro

Jonatan Castro — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:01:38 +0000

excellent tutorial!
Thanks!

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:26:17 +0000

Worked for me too. Thanks.

By: wooky

wooky — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:18:09 +0000

It works, thanks.

By: Dom

Dom — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:52:38 +0000

Ole! Thanks.

By: elinusliga

elinusliga — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:41:31 +0000

My Ubuntu 8.10 natively comes with vim-tiny. By installing full vim, now the syntax highlighting works.
The vi command no longer points to /usr/bin/vim.tiny. Instead it now points to /usr/bin/vim.basic

$ readlink -f `which vi`
/usr/bin/vim.basic

$dpkg -S /usr/bin/vim.basic
vim: /usr/bin/vim.basic

Thanks so much Vivek!

By: argon

argon — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:21:36 +0000

Thank you. I have apt-got vim, and my world is colorful now :)

By: Andre

Andre — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:27:13 +0000

Works fine. Tk’s

By: dan

dan — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:46:49 +0000

I’m running Debian and I came across the same issue. I originally thought I was using some archaic version of vim! This article did the trick.

By: patrick

patrick — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:47:51 +0000

Thank you :-)

By: dan

dan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:54:53 +0000

solved my problem.

Thank you.