How To Install vim-youcompleteme on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is vim-youcompleteme

vim-youcompleteme is:

YouCompleteMe is a fast, as-you-type, fuzzy-search code completion engine for Vim. It has several completion engines: an identifier-based engine that works with every programming language, a semantic, Clang-based engine that provides native semantic code completion for C/C++/Objective-C/Objective-C++ and an omnifunc-based completer that uses data from Vim’s omnicomplete system to provide semantic completions for many other languages (Ruby, PHP etc.).

There are three methods to install vim-youcompleteme 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-youcompleteme 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-youcompleteme using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install vim-youcompleteme

Install vim-youcompleteme Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install vim-youcompleteme

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

sudo aptitude -y install vim-youcompleteme

How To Uninstall vim-youcompleteme on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove vim-youcompleteme

Uninstall vim-youcompleteme And Its Dependencies

To uninstall vim-youcompleteme and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove vim-youcompleteme

Remove vim-youcompleteme Configurations and Data

To remove vim-youcompleteme configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge vim-youcompleteme

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

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

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

Dependencies

vim-youcompleteme have the following dependencies:

• python3

References

• vim-youcompleteme website

Summary

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