How To Install powerline-gitstatus on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install powerline-gitstatus on Kali Linux. powerline-gitstatus is Powerline Git segment

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install powerline-gitstatus on Kali Linux.

What is powerline-gitstatus

powerline-gitstatus is:

Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile.

This package contains the configuration handling for powerline.

There are three methods to install powerline-gitstatus on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install powerline-gitstatus Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install powerline-gitstatus using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install powerline-gitstatus

Install powerline-gitstatus Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install powerline-gitstatus using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install powerline-gitstatus

Install powerline-gitstatus Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install powerline-gitstatus using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install powerline-gitstatus

How To Uninstall powerline-gitstatus on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove powerline-gitstatus

Uninstall powerline-gitstatus And Its Dependencies

To uninstall powerline-gitstatus and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove powerline-gitstatus

Remove powerline-gitstatus Configurations and Data

To remove powerline-gitstatus configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge powerline-gitstatus

Remove powerline-gitstatus configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove powerline-gitstatus configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge powerline-gitstatus

Dependencies

powerline-gitstatus have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install powerline-gitstatus package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.