How To Install vim-tabular on Debian 10

Learn how to install vim-tabular on Debian 10 with this tutorial. vim-tabular is Vim script for text filtering and alignment

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-tabular on Debian 10.

What is vim-tabular

vim-tabular is:

Sometimes, it’s useful to line up text. Naturally, it’s nicer to have the computer do this for you, since aligning things by hand quickly becomes unpleasant. While there are other plugins for aligning text, the ones I’ve tried are either impossibly difficult to understand and use, or too simplistic to handle complicated tasks. This plugin aims to make the easy things easy and the hard things possible, without providing an unnecessarily obtuse interface. It’s still a work in progress, and criticisms are welcome.

There are three methods to install vim-tabular on Debian 10. 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-tabular 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-tabular using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install vim-tabular

Install vim-tabular Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install vim-tabular using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install vim-tabular

Install vim-tabular 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-tabular using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install vim-tabular

How To Uninstall vim-tabular on Debian 10

To uninstall only the vim-tabular package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove vim-tabular

Uninstall vim-tabular And Its Dependencies

To uninstall vim-tabular and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove vim-tabular

Remove vim-tabular Configurations and Data

To remove vim-tabular configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge vim-tabular

Remove vim-tabular configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove vim-tabular configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vim-tabular

Dependencies

vim-tabular have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-tabular package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.