How To Install vim-athena on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

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 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-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 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-athena using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install vim-athena

How To Uninstall vim-athena on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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:

• vim-common

References

• vim-athena website

Summary

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