How To Install vim-athena on Debian 12

Learn how to install vim-athena on Debian 12 with this tutorial. vim-athena is Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor (dummy package)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-athena on Debian 12.

What is vim-athena

vim-athena is:

This is a transitional package to install the vim-motif package. You may remove this package if nothing depends on it.

There are three methods to install vim-athena on Debian 12. 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 12

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 12, 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 12 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 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.