cynicaljoy

I keep having to install vim after I reboot my box. I am installing vim via the following: wget http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/glibc-2.15-i486-7.txz wget http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/d/python-2.7.3-i486-2.txz wget http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/d/perl-5.16.1-i486-1.txz wget http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/ap/vim-7.3.645-i486-1.txz installpkg *.txz What am I doing wrong? The same thing is happening for the 'clear' command. I am adding the clear command to my .bash_profile but it keeps getting dropped. echo "alias clear=\"echo -e '\0033\0143'\"" >> /root/.bash_profile source /root/.bash_profile I have to set this after each reboot. * Please forgive me if this topic has already been started. I attempted to search but that returned a bunch of seemingly unrelated topics.