Cut to the system clipboard from Vim on Ubuntu

Question

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 Beta and Vim that has come with it. I am trying to use Vim to copy the content of a text file to Chrome browser. I have tried +, *

Answer 1

If you have run configure as explained by @DrAl but you still can't get the GUI compiled in and you see this in the output of your ./configure

checking for X... (cached) no

Then you may have to delete the cache file that configure created.

find . -name config.cache -delete

Then re-run configure and make and check src/vim --version again - it should show that gui is included now.