How To Install vim-gui-common on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-gui-common
on Debian 9.
What is vim-gui-common
vim-gui-common is:
Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi.
This package contains files shared by all GUI-enabled vim variants available in Debian. Examples of such shared files are: gvimtutor, icons, and desktop environments settings.
There are three methods to install vim-gui-common
on Debian 9. 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-gui-common 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-gui-common
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vim-gui-common
Install vim-gui-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vim-gui-common
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vim-gui-common
Install vim-gui-common 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-gui-common
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vim-gui-common
How To Uninstall vim-gui-common on Debian 9
To uninstall only the vim-gui-common
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vim-gui-common
Uninstall vim-gui-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vim-gui-common
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vim-gui-common
Remove vim-gui-common Configurations and Data
To remove vim-gui-common
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vim-gui-common
Remove vim-gui-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vim-gui-common
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vim-gui-common
Dependencies
vim-gui-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-gui-common
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.