How to Install and Uninstall powerline Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 14,2024

1. Install "powerline" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install powerline on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall powerline on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                powerline
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the powerline package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: powerline
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.3-1ubuntu0
Priority: optional
Section: universe/python
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Jerome Charaoui
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 233
Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~), libc6 (>= 2.4), python-powerline
Recommends: fonts-powerline, python3-powerline
Suggests: python-powerline-doc, vim-addon-manager
Breaks: python-powerline (<< 0~20140216-2)
Replaces: python-powerline (<< 0~20140216-2)
Enhances: awesome, bash, ipython, tmux, vim-nox, zsh
Filename: pool/universe/p/powerline/powerline_2.3-1ubuntu0_amd64.deb
Size: 40932
MD5sum: 82f4121c3a67166cb0da6feafaa606cc
SHA1: 2b591fce7ead00c9535686e1270680dd07b8c14b
SHA256: a28c0ef83f31ed58e0d9cfb8d4f753fc06f7ed42576cc5bfcf32730161cc8048
SHA512: eff4c5ef421becad07baf20d8c705b2b8f3fc1439b98e8cc830c59411fdc4276ac1f2fb3678d90a40183bf09a18f15f8671203072ae15144ce9785589e719e2c
Homepage: https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline
Description-en: prompt and statusline utility
Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and
prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux,
IPython, Awesome and Qtile.
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This package contains the Powerline executables.
Description-md5: 612c4782bbe11c7f7dbe0a6f62ed8bf4

Package: powerline
Priority: optional
Section: universe/python
Installed-Size: 233
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Jerome Charaoui
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.3-1
Replaces: python-powerline (<< 0~20140216-2)
Depends: python, python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~), libc6 (>= 2.4), python-powerline
Recommends: fonts-powerline
Suggests: python-powerline-doc, vim-addon-manager
Breaks: python-powerline (<< 0~20140216-2)
Filename: pool/universe/p/powerline/powerline_2.3-1_amd64.deb
Size: 40710
MD5sum: 1b0deba75b30bda31b01c58fb9ecf66a
SHA1: 229062ca76490ccf2d7cf0fff6d7798dd46af36d
SHA256: 820b55c7862be35465669c7619f2fe7f712bb178948f97ef68cd3dd73a736f04
Description-en: prompt and statusline utility
Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and
prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux,
IPython, Awesome and Qtile.
.
This package contains the Powerline executables.
Description-md5: 612c4782bbe11c7f7dbe0a6f62ed8bf4
Enhances: awesome, bash, ipython, tmux, vim-nox, zsh
Homepage: https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu