How To Install powerline on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install powerline
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is powerline
powerline is:
Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile.
There are three methods to install powerline
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 powerline Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install powerline
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install powerline
Install powerline Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install powerline
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install powerline
Install powerline 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 powerline
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install powerline
How To Uninstall powerline on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the powerline
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove powerline
Uninstall powerline And Its Dependencies
To uninstall powerline
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove powerline
Remove powerline Configurations and Data
To remove powerline
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge powerline
Remove powerline configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove powerline
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge powerline
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install powerline
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.