How To Install cscope on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cscope on CentOS 8.
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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cscope.
Install cscope on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 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 CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 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 CentOS 8
To uninstall only the cscope package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cscope
cscope Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/cscope
/usr/bin/cscope-indexer
/usr/bin/ocs
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd/79879f9f91c9f6603f2b0bb6a96953aa6158f5
/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 CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.