So I came here and found this.
It installs, and this time I get only one error, but enough to flummox me:
Do you folks know how to fix this?sh-3.00# vim
Error detected while processing /root/.vimrc:
line 21:
E484: Can't open file /root/src/pet-vim72/share/vim/syntax/syntax.vim
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