How To Install ctags-etags on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install ctags-etags on Rocky Linux 8. ctags-etags is Exuberant Ctags for emacs tag format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ctags-etags on Rocky Linux 8.

What is ctags-etags

This package will generate tags in a format which GNU Emacs understand, it’s a alternativ implementation of the GNU etags program. Note

We can use yum or dnf to install ctags-etags on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ctags-etags.

Install ctags-etags on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ctags-etags using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ctags-etags

Install ctags-etags on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ctags-etags using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ctags-etags

How To Uninstall ctags-etags on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the ctags-etags package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ctags-etags

ctags-etags Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/etags.ctags
/usr/share/licenses/ctags-etags
/usr/share/licenses/ctags-etags/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/etags.ctags.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ctags-etags on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.