Getting Ack to Work in Vim on Ubuntu

Text editor search integration for Vim: plugin for ack. If you’re running Ubuntu, when you try the plugin you’ll likely encounter the message ”/bin/bash: ack: command not found”.

According the the instructions on the ack Vim plugin page you have to install it with “sudo aptitude install ack-grep”. After that, you’ll still get “/bin/bash: ack: command not found”. The solution?

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ack-grep /usr/local/bin/ack