vim doesn't find installed addons

[Laurent Monin]

Using up-to-date Jaunty, i just installed vim-syntax-gtk through synaptic,
then ran as user "vim-addons install gtk-syntax".
But still no gtk syntax in vim nor gvim.

I expect this syntax to be available as soon vim-addons install gtk-syntax was run.

$> ls -l /var/lib/vim/addons/
total 0

$> ls -l /usr/share/vim/addons/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-04-13 10:18 doc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-04-13 10:12 plugin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-04-19 00:19 syntax

$> grep runtimepath /usr/share/vim/vimcurrent/debian.vim
set runtimepath=~/.vim,/var/lib/vim/addons,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles,/usr/share/vim/vim72,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after,/var/lib/vim/addons/after,~/.vim/after

$> lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

$> vim
   :set runtimepath
runtimepath=~/.vim,/var/lib/vim/addons,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles,/usr/share/vim/vim72,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after,/var/lib/vim/addons/after,~/.vim/after

[Niall Murphy (nmurphy)]

Same problem with vim-latexsuite.
after installing the vim-latexsuite package i ran:

vim-addons install latex-suite

Vim did not load the plugins.

I then ran:
vim-addons -w install latex-suite
for system install but still vim does not load the plugin.

When i launch with "vim -D" vim never reads the plugin files.

[Niall Murphy (nmurphy)]

adding

filetype plugin on

to .vimrc tells vim to load filetype dependant plugins.

I suggest that this line be added to the system vimrc

[Joshua Bearden (joshua-beardenlaw)]

This still seems to be an issue in 10.10. I was having the same problem with vimoutliner. Following Niall's advice (in my local .vimrc) worked.