How to Install and Uninstall neovim Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 02,2024

1. Install "neovim" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install neovim on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                neovim
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "neovim" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall neovim on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                neovim
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the neovim package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: neovim
Version: 0.3.4-3
Installed-Size: 3386
Maintainer: Debian Vim Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Provides: editor
Depends: neovim-runtime (= 0.3.4-3), libc6 (>= 2.14), libluajit-5.1-2 (>= 2.0.4+dfsg), libmsgpackc2 (>= 2.1.0), libtermkey1 (>= 0.19), libunibilium4 (>= 2.0), libuv1 (>= 1.8.0), libvterm0 (>= 0~bzr635)
Recommends: python-neovim, python3-neovim, xclip | xsel, xxd
Suggests: ctags, vim-scripts
Description: heavily refactored vim fork
Description-md5: cc27d693d853e57070e8edb4f6132d4c
Homepage: https://neovim.io/
Section: editors
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/n/neovim/neovim_0.3.4-3_amd64.deb
Size: 1286372
MD5sum: a2054ffe7dfb8c2032a2731ec4019d65
SHA256: e36dccccd1fd8e38086b15d81d9aef049bc0586dd9b540b171d6917e41268f61