I have installed vim-nox version 7.4 package in my Debian Wheezy machine from backports. I am confused that the python feature still does not work as shown from vim --version command as -python as well as -python3. I have been surfing around and finding a possible solution by purging vim-tiny and reinstall vim-nox, but it didn't work out. Here is the output of dpkg -l vim*Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)||/ Name                                  Version                            Architecture Description+++-=====================================-==================================-============-================================================================================================ii  vim                                   2:7.4.488-3~bpo70+1                amd64        Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editorun  vim-athena                            <none>                                          (no description available)ii  vim-common                            2:7.4.488-3~bpo70+1                amd64        Vi IMproved - Common filesun  vim-doc                               <none>                                          (no description available)un  vim-gnome                             <none>                                          (no description available)un  vim-gtk                               <none>                                          (no description available)un  vim-lua                               <none>                                          (no description available)ii  vim-nox                               2:7.4.488-3~bpo70+1                amd64        Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor - with scripting languages supportun  vim-perl                              <none>                                          (no description available)un  vim-python                            <none>                                          (no description available)un  vim-ruby                              <none>                                          (no description available)ii  vim-runtime                           2:7.4.488-3~bpo70+1                all          Vi IMproved - Runtime filesun  vim-scripts                           <none>                                          (no description available)un  vim-tcl                               <none>                                          (no description available)un  vim-tiny                              <none>                                          (no description available)
Python feature disabled vim-nox
vim;python
I found out the problem happened due to default path of vim goes to /usr/bin/vim or /usr/local/bin/vim, which does not provide python feature, instead of vim-nox. I realized this problem by using which command to investigate.Therefore, I simply made an alias for vim as vim.nox.alias vim='vim.nox'