Q:

how to install a color scheme with yadr

someone advised me to use yadr, which is supposed to make installing dotfiles etc much easier for vim
however I just couldn't figure out a way to install base16 through yadr.. 
before I had to simply do these two steps:
1. copy the color profile file into ~/.vim/colors
then put this in my .vimrc file: :colors %color name%
but now that simply doesn't work.. it keeps on telling me it cannot file the color file.. but them i'm not sure where to put it.. 

A:

Placing your files in:
~/.vim/colors/

eg:
~/.vim/colors/base16-bright.vim

and doing:
:colorscheme base16-bright

or appending:
colorscheme base16-bright

to your ~/.vimrc should work, even with that stupid distribution.
Yadr itself doesn't "make installing dotfiles etc much easier for vim" but the "vim" part of that stupid distribution uses Vundle, a popular plugin manager, for that so you should probably play ball andinstall base16 through Vundle by adding a line to that file.
Or get rid of that crap and configure your environment yourself.

