2 Answers. Vim is pre-installed in Linux based OS. For Ubuntu its minimal version is pre-installed.

Where is vim installed on Ubuntu?

you’ll get a dump of file names, which will tell you where the bulk of the vim installation is. You’ll see that on Debian and Ubuntu, most of Vim’s files are in /usr/share/ . apt-file lists file names in all packages, whether they are installed or not.

Is vim available for Linux?

Vim is a powerful, highly configurable, popular, and cross-platform text editor that runs on Unix-like systems such as Linux, OS X, Solaris, *BSD, and MS-Windows.