Colorless VIM in Debian

After installation of Debian 4.0 I had no colors when using Vim. Command like ":syntax on" gave no results, instead it reported: "E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version". The solution was found there http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-install-full-vim-under-ubuntu-linux/.

Debian distributives (my and also Ubuntu, as I could see in the source above) install vim-tiny by default. Just "apt-get" a normal version of Vim:
# apt-get install vim

And also uncomment line "syntax on" in /etc/vim/vimrc if it's still commented.

Searching for a package in Debian

There are useful tool in Debian which manage packages within your system - apt-get and aptitude. However, both of them have one disadvantage - they can't tell which packages contain a file your're looking for. In such a situation one can use a special script called apt-file.

To install:
# apt-get install apt-file

Before the first usage it should create indices:
# apt-file update

And now we can use it:
# apt-file search stdio.h