How To Install cscope on CentOS 8

cscope is C source code tree search and browse tool

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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cscope on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.