How to Install and Uninstall vim Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 13,2024

1. Install "vim" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install vim on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

Learn how to uninstall vim on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: vim
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2:8.2.0716-3ubuntu2
Priority: optional
Section: editors
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Vim Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 3221
Provides: editor
Depends: vim-common (= 2:8.2.0716-3ubuntu2), vim-runtime (= 2:8.2.0716-3ubuntu2), libacl1 (>= 2.2.23), libc6 (>= 2.29), libcanberra0 (>= 0.2), libgpm2 (>= 1.20.7), libpython3.8 (>= 3.8.2), libselinux1 (>= 3.1~), libtinfo6 (>= 6)
Suggests: ctags, vim-doc, vim-scripts
Filename: pool/main/v/vim/vim_8.2.0716-3ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 1324004
MD5sum: 30e6368217943d8260e45e78240810fe
SHA1: 3bc43d19dc05e16931ca3a8568b3f0e79323720b
SHA256: cdd1e12dd702efe0abfb3abff509cdb9fc971f02af5d901f68a0026ff2a49925
SHA512: bd455611b885dc814de0ee4263c4ed04580685efe76dd59e75a627a4d948a1f4224048e1fb9fa248c1c4842652368c0a781238557a3d145a9ded6a3284e27cb5
Homepage: https://www.vim.org/
Description-en: 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: 59e8b8f7757db8b53566d5d119872de8
Task: server, cloud-image, server-raspi, lubuntu-desktop