How To Install vim-scripts on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-scripts on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is vim-scripts
vim-scripts is:
Vim is a very capable editor. Its scripting support allows the use of plugins that enhance the functionality of it. Many people have written scripts, they are scattered all over the web; however, there’s a central resource on http://vim.sf.net to start with.
This is a collection of some of those scripts on a purely subjective and biased basis. Users can thus have some nice scripts without having to go searching. The scripts can be installed globally or on a per user basis. Here is an abbreviated summary of some of the included scripts:
Filetype Plugins * po.vim - Easier editing of PO multi-lingual translation files * xml.vim - Helper for editing XML, HTML, and SGML documents
Games * VimSokoban_sokoban.vim - Sokoban Game for Vim * tetris.vim - Tetris for Vim
General Plugins * Align.vim - Provides commands to help produce aligned text, eqns, declarations * EnhancedCommentify.vim - Quickly comment lines in a program * NERD_commenter.vim - easy code commenting * a.vim - Alternate Files quickly (.c –> .h etc) * bufexplorer.vim - Easily switch between buffers without knowing their numbers * calendar.vim - Calendar * cvscommand.vim - CVS integration plugin * cvsmenu.vim - CVS menu supporting most CVS commands * gnupg.vim - Transparent editing of gpg encrypted files * info.vim - GNU info documentation browser * minibufexpl.vim - Elegant buffer explorer - takes very little screen space * svncommand.vim - Subversion (svn) integration plugin * taglist.vim - Source code browser (supports dozens of langauges) * themes.vim - All the color schemes on vim.sf.net, with menu * utl.vim - Univeral Text Linking - Execute URLs in plain text * vcscommand.vim - Commands for cvs, svn, git, hg, bzr, svk * vimspell.vim - ispell or aspell based spell checker with fly-spelling * whatdomain.vim - Find out the meaning of any Top Level Domain * winmanager.vim - A windows style IDE for Vim 6.0
Colors * over 100 different color schemes e.g. autumn.vim, eclipse.vim, navajo.vim
Syntax Files * CVSAnnotate.vim, gitAnnotate.vim, .. - for version control files * deb.vim - for browsing debian packages
There are three methods to install vim-scripts on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-scripts 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-scripts using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vim-scripts
Install vim-scripts Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vim-scripts using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vim-scripts
Install vim-scripts 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install vim-scripts using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vim-scripts
How To Uninstall vim-scripts on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the vim-scripts package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vim-scripts
Uninstall vim-scripts And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vim-scripts and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vim-scripts
Remove vim-scripts Configurations and Data
To remove vim-scripts configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vim-scripts
Remove vim-scripts configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vim-scripts configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vim-scripts
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-scripts package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
