How To Install vim-fugitive on CentOS 8

vim-fugitive is A Git wrapper so awesome, it should be illegal

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-fugitive on CentOS 8.

What is vim-fugitive

Fugitive is the premier Vim plugin for Git. Or maybe it’s the premier Git plugin for Vim? Either way, it’s “so awesome, it should be illegal”. That’s why it’s called Fugitive.

We can use yum or dnf to install vim-fugitive on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vim-fugitive.

Install vim-fugitive 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-fugitive using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vim-fugitive

Install vim-fugitive 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-fugitive using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vim-fugitive

How To Uninstall vim-fugitive on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the vim-fugitive package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove vim-fugitive

vim-fugitive Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/metainfo/vim-fugitive.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/autoload/fugitive.vim
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/doc/fugitive.txt
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftdetect/fugitive.vim
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftplugin/fugitiveblame.vim
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/fugitive.vim
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/syntax/fugitive.vim
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/syntax/fugitiveblame.vim

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-fugitive on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.