How To Install cscope on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cscope on Fedora 34.
What is cscope
cscope is a mature, ncurses based, C source code tree browsing tool. It allows users to search large source code bases for variables, functions, macros, etc, as well as perform general regex and plain text searches. Results are returned in lists, from which the user can select individual matches for use in file editing.
We can use yum or dnf to install cscope on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cscope.
Install cscope on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install cscope using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cscope
Install cscope on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install cscope using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cscope
How To Uninstall cscope on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the cscope package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cscope
cscope Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/cscope
/usr/bin/cscope-indexer
/usr/bin/ocs
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/54
/usr/lib/.build-id/54/b71986a20fb174ad9aeceaf861f105170bad2b
/usr/share/cscope
/usr/share/cscope/cctree.vim
/usr/share/cscope/xcscope.el
/usr/share/doc/cscope
/usr/share/doc/cscope/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cscope/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/cscope/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/cscope/README
/usr/share/doc/cscope/TODO
/usr/share/doc/cscope/cctree.txt
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/xcscope.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/xcscope.elc
/usr/share/man/man1/cscope.1.gz
/usr/share/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/xcscope.el
/usr/share/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/xcscope.elc
/var/lib/cs
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cscope on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
