Vim Error E492 - Not an editor command: PluginInstall

Question

I am trying to install Vundle on my Macvim. I followed the following link to get Vundle. I also configured my .vimrc file. But when I try PluginInstall, I get the following erro

Answer 1

This could be as a result of end of line characters, CRLF for windows and LF for linux.
Change your line endings.
if on unix in your ~/.vimrc file :

:set fileformat=unix :w

Answer 2

I had to install Vundle into Plugin directory instead of Bundle. It solved the issue.

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

Answer 3

You can check the output of :version

   system vimrc file: "/etc/vimrc"
     user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
 2nd user vimrc file: "~/.vim/vimrc"

Note which vimrc file you are using, say you are configuring $HOME/vimrc, but vim is reading $HOME/.vimrc (without dot at filename)

This happened to me.

Hope this will help you.

Answer 4

As mentioned here, I needed to set up Vundle like this:

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

Afterwards, the error got resolved. By the way, I am on a FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE machine not macOS