Ubuntu – Ubuntu 16.04 VIM without python support!

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Although Ubuntu 16.04 release notes mention that:

The default VIM package has been built against python3 instead of python2.

Yet after I installed vim with the following command:

sudo apt-get install vim

And checked:

vim --version

It showed:

-python
-python3

Is it a bug? How do I get vim with Python support?

If you want Python 3 support in vim, ~~install the vim-nox package (sudo apt install vim-nox)~~ see edit below.

However, if you still need Python 2 support, install the vim-nox-py2 package (sudo apt install vim-nox-py2).

Edit: vim was recently updated to fix this issue, and you should not need to install the vim-nox package anymore to get Python 3 support.

remove vim and install vim-gnome.

sudo apt-get install vim-gnome

First remove your local pip:

/home/benyamin/.local/bin/pip3 uninstall pip

Install it using apt:

sudo apt install python3-pip

or for "python2":

sudo apt install python-pip

then run:

sudo pip3 install zmq

you can also update pip using:

sudo pip3 install pip --upgrade

Alternative solution is to creat an alias:

alias pip3='sudo /home/benyamin/.local/bin/pip3'