How To Install cscope.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install cscope.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. cscope.x86_64 is C source code tree search and browse tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cscope.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `cscope.x86_64`

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 to install cscope.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cscope.x86_64.

Install cscope.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 cscope.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cscope.x86_64

How To Uninstall cscope.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the cscope.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove cscope.x86_64

cscope.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/cscope
/usr/bin/cscope-indexer
/usr/bin/ocs
/usr/share/cscope
/usr/share/cscope/cctree.vim
/usr/share/cscope/xcscope.el
/usr/share/doc/cscope-15.8
/usr/share/doc/cscope-15.8/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cscope-15.8/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/cscope-15.8/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/cscope-15.8/README
/usr/share/doc/cscope-15.8/TODO
/usr/share/doc/cscope-15.8/cctree.txt
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/xcscope.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/xcscope.elc
/usr/share/man/man1/cscope.1.gz
/var/lib/cs

References

cscope.x86_64 website

Summary

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