How To Install powerline on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install powerline
on Kali Linux.
What is powerline
powerline 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.
There are three methods to install powerline
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 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install powerline
Install powerline Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install powerline
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install powerline
Install powerline 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
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install powerline
How To Uninstall powerline on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the powerline
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove powerline
Uninstall powerline And Its Dependencies
To uninstall powerline
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove powerline
Remove powerline Configurations and Data
To remove powerline
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge powerline
Remove powerline configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove powerline
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge powerline
Dependencies
powerline have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install powerline
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.