Vim install...can't get off the drawing board

I've recently installed Vim 7.1 on my Mandrake 10.1 OS), and can get no further to using it. I cannot find an executable anywhere in the successful install of 'vim-7.1.tar.bz2 to link to. (The install was done in a sub-directory to '/home'.)

This is what I know of the current installation (Vim version 6.3.20):

$ which vim
/bin/vim

$ file /bin/vim
/bin/vim: symbolic link to `/etc/alternatives/vim'

$ file /etc/alternatives/vim
/etc/alternatives/vim: symbolic link to `/usr/bin/vim-enhanced'

$ file `/usr/bin/vim-enhanced'
/usr/bin/vim-enhanced: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux
2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

So...what do I do now?

Not sure about all these links.
How did you install this file?

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Originally Posted by Lazydog

Not sure about all these links.
How did you install this file?

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This was the default installation (version 6.3.20) that was part of the original installation of my Mandrake 10.1 OS.

It does not reflect the new installation of [version] 7.1, which I installed in a sub-directory of ~/.

OK, but how did you install it?

Just decompress in that dir or what did you do?

you should simply be able to open up a terminal and type vim or alternatively give it a file to open ie vim /home/examplefile

if you've already tried this then please post any error messages here so we can help diagnose the issue