How To Install vim-tabular on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-tabular on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 Ubuntu 20.04. 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-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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-tabular package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
