How To Install powerline on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install powerline on Ubuntu.
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. 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
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, 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 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
Dependencies
powerline have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install powerline package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.