Unknown function: vundle#begin

Question

I had old vundle installed. Instead of using git pull to update vundle, I removed old vundle from ~/.vim and installed it following Quick Start section in the Github page of vundle.

Maybe I broke something when I installed new vundle. I get this:

jack@Jack-PC ~ $ vim .vimrc
Error detected while processing /home/jack/.vimrc:
line    6:
E117: Unknown function: vundle#begin
line   15:
E117: Unknown function: vundle#end
Press ENTER or type command to continue

I followed the instructions on the Github page exactly.

" .vimrc
set nocompatible
filetype off 

" Vundle 
set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
call vundle#begin()
"
"" Vundle Plugins List
"Plugin 'gmarik/Vundle.vim'
"Plugin 'php.vim'
"Plugin 'neocomplcache'
"Plugin 'rails.vim'
"Plugin 'bling/vim-airline'
"
call vundle#end()
filetype plugin indent on

score 62 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 14 '16 at 09:55

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Your .vimrc seems fine. Looks like you have not installed the vundle plugin properly. Run this command on your console.

git clone https://github.com/gmarik/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim

You should have a directory structure like (I simplified it):

~/.vim
├── bundle/
│   └── Vundle.vim  <------------------ Vundle
├── colors/
│   └── Tomorrow.vim
└── plugin/
    └── acp.vim

edited Sep 14 '16 at 09:55

Édouard Lopez

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answered Aug 22 '14 at 10:48

Arithran

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What is the difference between your answer and `git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim`? – fujianjin6471 Mar 15 '17 at 07:01
This worked for me, I ran into this issue after copying my .vimrc from one computer to another. – blackbrandt Aug 10 '19 at 19:41

score 25 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 26 '15 at 05:01

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maybe the rtp location is wrong,you can type

:echo &rtp

in Vim to see whether the location of ~ stand for is correct.

you can replace

set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim

to

set rtp+=/home/[YourUserName]/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim   //do not use ~

edited Jan 26 '15 at 05:01

Rustam Gasanov

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answered Jan 26 '15 at 04:38

Xin Yang

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Thanks, this worked. For gVim users: `set rtp+=~/vimfiles/bundle/Vundle.vim` – yyny Mar 25 '16 at 21:32
Amazing solution. Looks like this is usually the case when setting up `.vimrc` files in remote linux servers with multiple users. – 24dinitrophenylhydrazine Nov 30 '20 at 13:55

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 15 '15 at 13:48

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I met this issue again. After checked, the reason why is that there is more than one bundle environment in computer, you can :echo &rtp, and see other environment, and remove other bundle directory.

answered Dec 15 '15 at 13:48

Jerry

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Jan 10 '17 at 20:55

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I think the best answer is:

set rtp+=$HOME/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim " in OS X

of course, you can find out: echo $HOME, is it your home directory or not.

edited Jan 10 '17 at 20:55

chelmertz

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answered Sep 09 '16 at 03:13

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score -1 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 15 '20 at 01:31

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I just make an empty directory named 'Vundle.vim' in '~/.vim/bundle' when I install it for vim in msys2.

answered Jun 15 '20 at 01:31

ShadowThree

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Unknown function: vundle#begin

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