apt-vim continually looking for python in /usr/bin/env

[caleywoods]

I am working from a Samsung Chromebook 3 running what is similar to an ubuntu chroot via crouton. I have python 3.5 located at /usr/bin/python3.5 and it's aliased in my .bashrc with alias python='/usr/bin/python3.5 and executing python --version from the bash shell will return back the python version.

When trying to install NERDTree with apt-vim, here is the output:

(xenial)caley@localhost:~$ apt-vim install -y https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree.git
/usr/bin/env: 'python': No such file or directory

If I prefix the above apt-vim install command with python then everything works fine. Should I modify .vimpkg/bin/apt-vim to point to /usr/bin/python3.5 or is there a better solution for this?

[egalpin]

The better solution is probably for me to make apt-vim installable via pip, homebrew, and various linux package managers (yum, apt-get, etc) such that this is handled correctly.

Your initial thought to modify the apt-vim python script to point to /usr/bin/python3.5 would rectify this on your system :-) I can also probably modify the install script to try to handle this more gracefully (i.e. find the system python via which python and add that as the shebang at the top of apt-vim)

[caleywoods]

Yeah, the change at the top of the file took care of it for me locally. apt-get should also work at least in my case, that seems to be how packages are installed inside the chroot, some kind of mock ubuntu CLI only type setup since I didn't opt for a window manager.