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What RPM packages are required to install vim on a recent version of Fedora?

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I use Fedora 14 and vim already came installed with it. Strange that you didn't get it pre-installed. – Dharmit Shah Feb 18 '11 at 16:37
I am using a custom version of Fedora, which is why the package is not on there by default. – Justin Ethier Feb 18 '11 at 17:17

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On a modern Fedora, run 

repoquery  --tree-requires vim-minimal

or 

repoquery  --tree-requires vim-enhanced

to get a recursive list of packages on which your specified package depends, in a nice tree format.

Note that vim-minimal only installs /bin/vi with no modern enhancements nor online help, for use when only the root partition is available. I guess you want vim-enhanced or vim-X11.

If you only want a list of the direct dependencies, you could run

repoquery --requires --resolve vim-enhanced

to get the packages list or

repoquery --requires vim-enhanced

to get the required capabilities.

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And of course if you don't have repoquery, run yum install yum-utils. – mattdm♦ Feb 16 '11 at 1:30

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