I Installed X Terminal and vim-tiny,

when I try to access the opera ini files by typing

vim ~/.opera/opera.ini
or
vim ~/.opera/input.ini

it says

sh: vim: not found

what do I need to do to make vim work?

Try making sure the path to the vim binary is specified correctly. So either invoke vim with full path to the binary or add vim's path to your $PATH env variable.

For those of us familiar with Windows, adding a directory to the PATH environment variable is easy to understand.

But how do I do that on the 770?

And can it be done without having root access?

And what is the full path to a binary? Well, you know what I mean -- where are these apps installed and how does a user find out the exact directory vim was put into? Like if it's put nto a subdirectory, how do you know?

Thanks.

Take a look at the entry I made on using xterm in the wiki. It won't answer all your questions - for that you'll need to get more familiar with Linux and its "shells" - e.g. bash. Though busybox (which provides the shell on the 770) isn't a complete bash shell it's near enough.

To set the path
where {path to add} is the path you want to add.

User installed binaries go in /var/lib/install/usr/bin

I had found some instructions on how to install vim as root, so the binary would go in /usr/bin, but I can't find it

thedarksavant,

I entered the command using the full path and it opened like a charm.

Thanks

If the instructions at http://www.bleb.org/software/770/#vim aren't clear enough, please let me know and I'll improve them.

Similarly, if the vim section of the ApplicationCatalog is confusing, fix it yourself ;-)

UPDATE: I unistalled vim and reinstalled it as root using dpkg, modifying it for the extrootfs because ~ is now /Root

just typing vim doesn't work. I still need to type "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/Root/usr/lib /Root/usr/lib/vim" (or something to that effect, can't remember the exact path found using "find /Root -name vim", but you get the idea.)

So i figured out that .profile is located in /Root/root/.profile and it existed with a PATH already set that was long, included a lot of /bin and /sbin, and ended with X11. Do i just write LD_LIBRARY_PATH=* on a new line below this pre-existing PATH variable?

Sorry for my inexperience, but I want to make sure I do the right thing and I have not messed with .profile before, can you tell?

MORE UPDATES:

OK, now I found a wiki that describes creating a .shrc file for easy profile manipulation. My issue now is using dpkg to uninstall the vim-tiny package i installed quoted above.

I've tried dpkg -r /media/mmc1/vim-tiny_5.6.070-1.1_all.deb, but the error:

you must specify packages by their own names, not by the names of the packages they come in

so how can i remove the files i used dpkg to install?