How To Install zplug on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install zplug
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is zplug
zplug is:
zplug is a next-generation plugin manager for zsh, with the following features:
- Can manage everything
- Zsh plugins/UNIX commands on GitHub and Bitbucket
- Gist files (gist.github.com)
- Externally managed plugins e.g., oh-my-zsh plugins/themes
- Binary artifacts on GitHub Releases
- Local plugins
- etc. (you can add your own sources!)
- Super-fast parallel installation/update
- Support for lazy-loading
- Branch/tag/commit support
- Post-update, post-load hooks
- Dependencies between packages
- Unlike antigen, no ZSH plugin file (*.plugin.zsh) required
- Interactive interface (fzf, peco, zaw, and so on)
- Cache mechanism for reducing the startup time.
There are three methods to install zplug
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install zplug Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install zplug
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install zplug
Install zplug Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install zplug
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install zplug
Install zplug 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 zplug
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install zplug
How To Uninstall zplug on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the zplug
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove zplug
Uninstall zplug And Its Dependencies
To uninstall zplug
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove zplug
Remove zplug Configurations and Data
To remove zplug
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge zplug
Remove zplug configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove zplug
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge zplug
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install zplug
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.