How To Install vim-athena on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-athena on Debian 11.
What is vim-athena
vim-athena is:
Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi.
Many new features have been added: multi level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, on-line help, filename completion, block operations, folding, Unicode support, etc.
This package contains a version of vim compiled with a Athena GUI and support for scripting with Lua, Perl, Python 3, and Tcl.
There are three methods to install vim-athena on Debian 11. 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-athena 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-athena using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vim-athena
Install vim-athena Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vim-athena using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vim-athena
Install vim-athena 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 vim-athena using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vim-athena
How To Uninstall vim-athena on Debian 11
To uninstall only the vim-athena package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vim-athena
Uninstall vim-athena And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vim-athena and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vim-athena
Remove vim-athena Configurations and Data
To remove vim-athena configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vim-athena
Remove vim-athena configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vim-athena configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vim-athena
Dependencies
vim-athena have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-athena package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.