E185 error on mac terminal [duplicate] - macos

Question

I have Solarized installed via pathogen and it's been working fine in both terminal and MacVim on my Mac. Today, I tried setting up an Ubuntu box on Linode. I just cloned my dotfiles and symlinked to my .vim and .vimrc folders (this is the same setup as I use on my local machine.
Whenever I try to run vim on the Ubuntu box I get an error
Error detected while processing /root/.vimrc:
line 43:
E185: Cannot find color scheme solarized
Press ENTER or type command to continue
I can tell my .vimrc is being loaded because all other setting like line numbers are working.
The related lines in .vimrc are the following:
" settings needed for solarized colorscheme
syntax enable
set background=dark
let g:solarized_termcolors=256
colorscheme solarized
This is the setup of my .vim/bundle directory (incase you suspect I don't actually have solzrized in there!):
~ ls .vim/bundle
ack coffeescript liquid snipmate vim-colors-solarized vim-jst zencoding
closetag html5.vim nerdtree surround vim-javascript vim-rails
One other thing, running echo &t_Co in vim on the ubunto box gets me 256.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

I was running into this problem just now, too. I had my call pathogen#infect() line in my .vimrc just fine, but was getting the
E185: Cannot find color scheme solarized
error, like you. I moved my call pathogen#infect() up to the top of my .vimrc and all is swell now. Try that if you're still having problems!

Answer 2

I know that it is kind of obvious, but did you check the contents of ~/.vim/bundle/vim-colors-solarized? Just in case you are running in the same issue described in Vim: Pathogen not loading

Answer 3

:colo[rscheme] {name} Load color scheme {name}. This searches 'runtimepath'
for the file "colors/{name}.vim. The first one that
is found is loaded.
You should put solarized.vim in ~/.vim/colors/.

Answer 4

This is what I did;
cp ~/.vim/bundle/vim-colors-solarized/colors/solarized.vim ~/.vim/colors/

Answer 5

I just ran into this problem myself on a new CentOS box where 'vi' was mapped to a version of VIM without syntax support (ie. -syntax) and was giving the E185: Cannot find color scheme solarized error, while 'vim' mapped to a version with syntax support and worked fine with solarized.
Aliasing 'vi' to 'vim' resolved the issue.
For reference:
To check if the version of vim that you are running has support for syntax highlighting, run :version from within vim. -syntax means no support, +syntax means it has support.
To create the alias, append alias vi='vim' to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile
To re-source, type source ~/.bashrc or source ~/.bash_profile, whichever is appropriate for your setup.

Answer 6

One step you might be missing is to add
call pathogen#infect()
to your .vimrc file.
Src: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2332

Answer 7

I was getting this problem and I fixed it by issuing
cd ~/.yadr
git pull
rake update

Answer 8

I fix it ;)
Found this bug:
https://github.com/altercation/vim-colors-solarized/issues/104
cp ~/.vim/bundle/vim-colors-solarized/colors/solarized.vim ~/.vim/colors/

Answer 9

As Ryan Ransford said:
With the new version of vundle (Vundle.vim),
it appears as though "colorscheme solarized" must
come somewhere after "call vundle#end()".
This works for me!

Answer 10

I have the same issue and resolve it after moving color setting after call vundle#end() in ~/.vimrc
...
Plugin 'jnurmine/Zenburn'
Plugin 'altercation/vim-colors-solarized'
call vundle#end() " required
filetype plugin indent on " required
if has('gui_running')
set background=dark
colorscheme solarized
else
colorscheme zenburn
endif