How To Install vim-powerline on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-powerline on CentOS 8.
What is vim-powerline
Powerline is a status-line plugin for vim, and provides status-lines and prompts.
We can use yum or dnf to install vim-powerline on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vim-powerline.
Install vim-powerline 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-powerline using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install vim-powerline
Install vim-powerline 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-powerline using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install vim-powerline
How To Uninstall vim-powerline on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the vim-powerline package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove vim-powerline
vim-powerline Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/appdata
/usr/share/appdata/vim-powerline.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/doc/vim-powerline
/usr/share/doc/vim-powerline/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/vim-powerline/README.rst
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/autoload
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/autoload/powerline
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/autoload/powerline/debug.vim
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/powerline.vim
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-powerline on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.