Several required dependencies missing for vim-gtk install

[Kate Ward]

Installing vim-gtk (and by chance openntpd at the same time) resulted in the various errors and workarounds below.

$ sudo apt-get install vim-gtk openntpd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  defoma fontconfig fontconfig-config libatk1.0-0 libcairo2 libdatrie0
  libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-common libice6
  libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libperl5.8 libpixman-1-0 libpng12-0
  libruby1.8 libsm6 libthai-data libthai0 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6
  libxcb-xlib0 libxcb1 libxft2 libxrender1 libxt6 ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-core
  ttf-dejavu-extra vim-gui-common x11-common
Suggested packages:
  defoma-doc dfontmgr psfontmgr x-ttcidfont-conf libfreetype6-dev
  librsvg2-common ttf-arphic-bkai00mp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp
  ttf-arphic-gkai00mp ttf-baekmuk ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-kochi-mincho
  ttf-thryomanes cscope gnome-icon-theme ttf-bitstream-vera vim-doc
Recommended packages:
  libft-perl libatk1.0-data hicolor-icon-theme libgtk2.0-bin
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  defoma fontconfig fontconfig-config libatk1.0-0 libcairo2 libdatrie0
  libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-common libice6
  libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libperl5.8 libpixman-1-0 libpng12-0
  libruby1.8 libsm6 libthai-data libthai0 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6
  libxcb-xlib0 libxcb1 libxft2 libxrender1 libxt6 openntpd ttf-dejavu
  ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra vim-gtk vim-gui-common x11-common
0 upgraded, 35 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 18.7MB of archives.
After this operation, 33.1MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

$ vim
ld.so.1: vim.gtk: fatal: libXdamage.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory
Killed

$ ldd $(which vim) |grep composite
 libXcomposite.so.1 => (file not found)
 libXcomposite.so.1 => (file not found)

The workaround is to install libxcomposite1.

$ sudo apt-get install libxcomposite1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libxext6 libxfixes3
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libxcomposite1 libxext6 libxfixes3
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 50.7kB of archives.
After this operation, 31.7kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

$ ldd $(which vim) |grep composite
 libXcomposite.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcomposite.so.1

$ vim
ld.so.1: vim.gtk: fatal: libXdamage.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory
Killed

$ sudo apt-get install libxdamage1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libxdamage1
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 9896B of archives.
After this operation, 27.6kB of additional disk space will be used.

$ vim
ld.so.1: vim.gtk: fatal: libXi.so.6: open failed: No such file or directory
Killed

$ sudo apt-get install libxi6
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libxi6
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 24.4kB of archives.
After this operation, 53.2kB of additional disk space will be used.

$ vim
ld.so.1: vim.gtk: fatal: libXrandr.so.2: open failed: No such file or directory
Killed

$ sudo apt-get install libxrandr2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libxrandr2
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 19.7kB of archives.
After this operation, 46.1kB of additional disk space will be used.

$ vim
ld.so.1: vim.gtk: fatal: libXcursor.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory
Killed

$ sudo apt-get install libxcursor1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libxcursor1
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 22.3kB of archives.
After this operation, 51.2kB of additional disk space will be used.

$ vim

vim now works.