How To Install powerline on AlmaLinux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install powerline in AlmaLinux 8. powerline is The ultimate status-line/prompt utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install powerline on AlmaLinux 8.

What is powerline

Powerline is a status-line plugin for vim, and provides status-lines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile.

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

Install powerline on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install powerline using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install powerline

Install powerline on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install powerline using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install powerline

How To Uninstall powerline on AlmaLinux 8

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

sudo dnf remove powerline

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install powerline on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.