How To Install vim-filesystem on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-filesystem on CentOS 8.
What is vim-filesystem
This package provides some directories which are required by other packages that add vim files, p.e. additional syntax files or filetypes.
We can use yum or dnf to install vim-filesystem on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vim-filesystem.
Install vim-filesystem on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install vim-filesystem using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install vim-filesystem
Install vim-filesystem on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install vim-filesystem using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install vim-filesystem
How To Uninstall vim-filesystem on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the vim-filesystem package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove vim-filesystem
vim-filesystem Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.vim
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/autoload
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/colors
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/compiler
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/doc
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/ftdetect
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/ftplugin
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/indent
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/keymap
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/lang
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/plugin
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/print
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/spell
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/syntax
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/tutor
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/autoload
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/colors
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/compiler
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/doc
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/doc/tags
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftdetect
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftplugin
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/indent
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/keymap
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/lang
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/print
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/spell
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/syntax
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/tutor
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-filesystem on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.