How To Install vim-filesystem.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-filesystem.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. vim-filesystem.x86_64 is VIM filesystem layout

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-filesystem.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `vim-filesystem.x86_64`

This package provides some directories which are required by other packages that add vim files, p.e. additional syntax files or filetypes.

We can use yum to install vim-filesystem.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vim-filesystem.x86_64.

Install vim-filesystem.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install vim-filesystem.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vim-filesystem.x86_64

How To Uninstall vim-filesystem.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the vim-filesystem.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove vim-filesystem.x86_64

vim-filesystem.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/vim/vimfiles
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/autoload
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/colors
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/compiler
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/doc
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/ftdetect
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/ftplugin
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/indent
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/keymap
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/lang
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/plugin
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/print
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/spell
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/syntax
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/tutor
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/autoload
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/colors
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/compiler
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/doc
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/doc/tags
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftdetect
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftplugin
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/indent
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/keymap
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/lang
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/print
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/spell
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/syntax
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/tutor

References

vim-filesystem.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-filesystem.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.