Lost vi/vim

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 02:02:48PM +0100, Laurent CHARLES wrote:
> Colin Watson a écrit :
> >Sounds like damage from installing the broken kvim package. Try
> >removing that.
> 
> Yes. Probably that, as kvim has been removed with vim.
> 
> Anyhow, would it mean '--reinstall' does not really reinstall?

No, --reinstall really does reinstall the package you asked for, but it
doesn't have any effect on diversions (see the dpkg-divert
documentation). The current kvim package diverts vim but fails to put
anything in its place.

> >On one of my other installs.  Vim installed as vim.org...
> 
> I think I've also noticed a vim.org. Not sure, it disappeared during the
> remove/install. Maybe the side effect of kvim.

Yes, that's the target of the diversion.

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]