How To Install vit on Debian 10

Learn how to install vit on Debian 10 with this tutorial. vit is full-screen terminal interface for Taskwarrior

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vit on Debian 10.

What is vit

vit is:

A minimalistic Taskwarrior full-screen terminal interface with Vim key bindings. Vit display all reports and all of the basic Taskwarrior functionality. It support almost all commands, and thus serve as a fully functional replacement for VITtk.

There are three methods to install vit on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install vit Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install vit

Install vit Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install vit using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install vit

Install vit 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 vit using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install vit

How To Uninstall vit on Debian 10

To uninstall only the vit package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove vit

Uninstall vit And Its Dependencies

To uninstall vit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove vit

Remove vit Configurations and Data

To remove vit configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge vit

Remove vit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vit

Dependencies

vit have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install vit package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.