How To Install vim-asciidoc on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-asciidoc on Kali Linux.

What is vim-asciidoc

vim-asciidoc is:

AsciiDoc is a text document format for writing articles, books, manuals and UNIX man pages. AsciiDoc files can be translated to HTML (with or without stylesheets), DocBook (articles, books and refentry documents) and LinuxDoc using the asciidoc command. AsciiDoc can also be used to build and maintain websites.

You write an AsciiDoc document the same way you would write a normal text document, there are no markup tags or weird format notations. AsciiDoc files are designed to be viewed, edited and printed directly or translated to other presentation formats

This package provides vim syntax highlighting for asciidoc.

There are three methods to install vim-asciidoc 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 vim-asciidoc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install vim-asciidoc

Install vim-asciidoc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install vim-asciidoc

Install vim-asciidoc 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 vim-asciidoc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install vim-asciidoc

How To Uninstall vim-asciidoc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the vim-asciidoc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove vim-asciidoc

Uninstall vim-asciidoc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove vim-asciidoc

Remove vim-asciidoc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge vim-asciidoc

Remove vim-asciidoc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vim-asciidoc

Dependencies

vim-asciidoc have the following dependencies:

• vim-addon-manager

References

• vim-asciidoc website

Summary

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