Powerline not work with vim
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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powerline (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Powerline depends on python-powerline, which is Python 2, but vim is built with python 3 support, not python 2.
At the end, powerline doesn't work with vim. I suggest that let powerline package depend on either python-powerline or python3-powerline.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: powerline (not installed)
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Oct 13 23:29:52 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-13 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
SourcePackage: powerline
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Marking as a duplicate of previous report.
Workaround is to:
sudo apt install python3-powerline