HowTo: Install Vim WITHOUT X11

I like Vim and I like using those cool colour schemes available for the editor.

So in my ingenuity I changed directory to /usr/ports/editors/vim and ran make install clean... big mistake! It tried to install all sorts of X11 related stuff and of course X11 itself. Normally this wouldn't be a problem, however on a 266 MHZ headless server I really don't want a GUI of any sorts.

To address the situation I read the port's Makefile and noticed several options that could be passed on the make step, namely WITHOUT_X11.

Here's how to install Vim without X11:

1. % su
2. # cd /usr/ports/editors/vim
3. # make WITHOUT_X11=yes NO_GUI=yes LITE=yes install clean
4. # rehash
   

And that's it.

Now I can finally use those cool colour schemes again. :D