How To Install vile on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vile
on Debian 10.
What is vile
vile is:
vile is a text editor which is extremely compatible with vi in terms of ``finger feel’’. In addition, it has extended capabilities in many areas, notably multi-file editing and viewing, syntax highlighting, key rebinding, an optional embedded perl interpreter, and real X window system support.
This package contains the character-mode binary. Required support files are contained in vile-common. Source code highlighting filters are in vile-filters. An X11 binary is in the xvile package.
There are three methods to install vile
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install vile Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vile
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vile
Install vile Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vile
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vile
Install vile Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install vile
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vile
How To Uninstall vile on Debian 10
To uninstall only the vile
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vile
Uninstall vile And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vile
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vile
Remove vile Configurations and Data
To remove vile
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vile
Remove vile configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vile
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vile
Dependencies
vile have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vile
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.