How to Install and Uninstall vim Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 12,2024

1. Install "vim" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install vim on Kali Linux


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall vim on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                vim
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the vim package on Kali Linux

Package: vim
Version: 2:9.1.0016-1
Installed-Size: 3743
Maintainer: Debian Vim Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Provides: editor
Depends: vim-common (= 2:9.1.0016-1), vim-runtime (= 2:9.1.0016-1), libacl1 (>= 2.2.23), libc6 (>= 2.34), libgpm2 (>= 1.20.7), libselinux1 (>= 3.1~), libsodium23 (>= 1.0.14), libtinfo6 (>= 6)
Suggests: ctags, vim-doc, vim-scripts
Size: 1601756
SHA256: 9830f1c23f73f16daf627fe39f421c4a3e930a79f3d013511ebf00c7085b25de
SHA1: 4292a1121cf1485da17387d261d1372eb350b3be
MD5sum: 9181bb129be81f963d42460ddf48a67d
Description: Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor
Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi.
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Many new features have been added: multi level undo, syntax
highlighting, command line history, on-line help, filename
completion, block operations, folding, Unicode support, etc.
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This package contains a version of vim compiled with a rather
standard set of features. This package does not provide a GUI
version of Vim. See the other vim-* packages if you need more
(or less).
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://www.vim.org/
Tag: devel::editor, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline,
interface::text-mode, role::program, scope::application,
uitoolkit::ncurses, use::editing, works-with::text, works-with::unicode
Section: editors
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/v/vim/vim_9.1.0016-1_amd64.deb