vim on powerpc

Stan Johnson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

After upgrading to the latest Debian SID (systemd) on a PowerBook G3 
Wallstreet, vim was deleted. I did not run into this issue updating 
Debian SID (sysvinit) on a PowerBook G3 Lombard, so it's possible that 
systemd (or something related to systemd) pulled in a version of 
vim-common that is incompatible with the latest available version of vim.

Here's the applicable error:

# apt-get install vim
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Solving dependencies... Error!
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  vim : Depends: vim-common (= 2:9.1.1230-2) but 2:9.1.1846-1 is to be 
installed
        Depends: vim-runtime (= 2:9.1.1230-2) but it is not going to be 
installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
E: The following information from --solver 3.0 may provide additional 
context:
    Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting decisions:
    1. vim:powerpc=2:9.1.1230-2 is selected for install
    2. vim:powerpc Depends vim-common (= 2:9.1.1230-2)
       but none of the choices are installable:
       [no choices]

---

I can just wait and hope that a newer version of vim eventually becomes 
available, or I can use pico, which IMO is good but not as good as vi.

I could also compile and install the latest version of traditional vi 
(ex-050325) available from "https://sourceforge.net/projects/ex-vi/".

If anyone has any other recommendations, please let me know. Thanks.

-Stan Johnson
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