How To Install vim-data.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-data.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. vim-data.noarch is Shared data for Vi and Vim

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-data.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `vim-data.noarch`

The subpackage is used for shipping files and directories, which need to be shared between vim-minimal and vim-common packages.

We can use yum to install vim-data.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vim-data.noarch.

Install vim-data.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install vim-data.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vim-data.noarch

How To Uninstall vim-data.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the vim-data.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove vim-data.noarch

vim-data.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/licenses/vim-data-8.2.4428
/usr/share/licenses/vim-data-8.2.4428/LICENSE
/usr/share/vim
/usr/share/vim/vim82
/usr/share/vim/vim82/defaults.vim
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/template.spec

References

vim-data.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-data.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.