Vim Installation On A Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora, Raspbian And MacOS

Vim Installation On A Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora, Raspbian And MacOS

vim

Vi IMproved, a programmer’s text editor, provides several modes for different kinds of text manipulation.
Pressing `i` enters edit mode. “ goes back to normal mode, which doesn’t allow regular text insertion.

Maintainer: Debian Vim Maintainers



Section: editors

Install vim

  • Debian apt-get install vim Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install vim Click to copy
  • Alpine OS apk add vim Click to copy
  • Arch Linux pacman -S vim Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install vim Click to copy
  • CentOS yum install vim-enhanced-2 Click to copy
  • Fedora dnf install vim-enhanced-2 Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install vim Click to copy
  • macOS brew install vim Click to copy
Installing vim command is simple. just copy one of the above commands for your operating system and paste it into terminal. This command is available for Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora, Raspbian and macOS operating systems. Once you run the command it will install the latest version of vim 2026 package in your OS.