How To Install vim-gnome on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-gnome
on Debian 9.
What is vim-gnome
vim-gnome is:
This is a transitional package to install the vim-gtk3 package. You may remove this package if nothing depends on it.
There are three methods to install vim-gnome
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install vim-gnome Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vim-gnome
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vim-gnome
Install vim-gnome Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vim-gnome
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vim-gnome
Install vim-gnome 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 vim-gnome
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vim-gnome
How To Uninstall vim-gnome on Debian 9
To uninstall only the vim-gnome
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vim-gnome
Uninstall vim-gnome And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vim-gnome
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vim-gnome
Remove vim-gnome Configurations and Data
To remove vim-gnome
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vim-gnome
Remove vim-gnome configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vim-gnome
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vim-gnome
Dependencies
vim-gnome have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-gnome
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.