How To Install ctags-etags on CentOS 8

ctags-etags is Exuberant Ctags for emacs tag format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ctags-etags on CentOS 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 CentOS 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 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 ctags-etags using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ctags-etags

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

sudo yum -y install ctags-etags

How To Uninstall ctags-etags on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove ctags-etags

ctags-etags Package Contents on CentOS 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 CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.