Syntax highlighting not working on Ubuntu? That’s because it’s not enabled by default (?).
Edit/Create a file named .vimrc on your ~/ (home directory) and insert the following line
syntax enable
That’s it. Have fun with vim.
Update: typo. It’s .vimrc and not .vim
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