How To Install powerline-gitstatus on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install powerline-gitstatus on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is powerline-gitstatus
powerline-gitstatus 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 configuration handling for powerline.
There are three methods to install powerline-gitstatus on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-gitstatus 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-gitstatus using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install powerline-gitstatus
Install powerline-gitstatus Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install powerline-gitstatus using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install powerline-gitstatus
Install powerline-gitstatus 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install powerline-gitstatus using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install powerline-gitstatus
How To Uninstall powerline-gitstatus on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the powerline-gitstatus package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove powerline-gitstatus
Uninstall powerline-gitstatus And Its Dependencies
To uninstall powerline-gitstatus and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove powerline-gitstatus
Remove powerline-gitstatus Configurations and Data
To remove powerline-gitstatus configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge powerline-gitstatus
Remove powerline-gitstatus configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove powerline-gitstatus configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge powerline-gitstatus
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install powerline-gitstatus package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
