How To Install powerline-doc on Debian 12

Learn how to install powerline-doc on Debian 12 with this tutorial. powerline-doc is prompt and statusline utility (documentation)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install powerline-doc on Debian 12.

What is powerline-doc

powerline-doc is:

Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile.

This package contains the HTML documentation, incorporates instructions on how to customize Powerline for various applications.

There are three methods to install powerline-doc on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install powerline-doc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install powerline-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install powerline-doc

Install powerline-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install powerline-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install powerline-doc

Install powerline-doc Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install powerline-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install powerline-doc

How To Uninstall powerline-doc on Debian 12

To uninstall only the powerline-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove powerline-doc

Uninstall powerline-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall powerline-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove powerline-doc

Remove powerline-doc Configurations and Data

To remove powerline-doc configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge powerline-doc

Remove powerline-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove powerline-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge powerline-doc

Dependencies

powerline-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install powerline-doc package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.