How To Install ctags-etags.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install ctags-etags.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. ctags-etags.x86_64 is Exuberant Ctags for emacs tag format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ctags-etags.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `ctags-etags.x86_64`

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

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

Install ctags-etags.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 ctags-etags.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ctags-etags.x86_64

How To Uninstall ctags-etags.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the ctags-etags.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove ctags-etags.x86_64

ctags-etags.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/etags.ctags
/usr/share/doc/ctags-etags-5.8
/usr/share/doc/ctags-etags-5.8/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/etags.ctags.1.gz

References

ctags-etags.x86_64 website

Summary

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