This is a project for building a 64bit Gvim AppImage from the latest Vim snapshots. AppImage is a form of cross-distribution packaging format that can be run everywhere by simply downloading the image and starting it. For more information about the package format see here: AppImage.

The image is based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS focal 22.04 LTS jammy (since commit 1bfa21b because Github retired the Ubuntu 20.04 images in April 2025)

The Appimage most likely won't work on older distributions. If you require a Vim appimage, that runs on older distributions, you can download the last Ubuntu 18.04 bionic based installation v9.0.1413 and the last Ubuntu 20.04 focal based installation v9.1.1301

Download and execute the most recent GVim-*.AppImage file to run GVim.

If you want a terminal Vim, just create a symbolic link with a name starting with "vim". Like:

ln -s GVim-*.AppImage vim.appimage

Then start vim.appimage to get a terminal Vim.

The vim / gvim AppImage's are built with Vim interfaces for Perl, Python3, Ruby and Lua. See the release notes for usage and details.

See: https://github.com/vim/vim

The Vim license applies (see :h license) to all the build scripts in this repository. Note, that Vim is included as a submodule and comes with its own license (although is also released under the Vim license).