How To Install geany-plugins-geanyctags on CentOS 8

geany-plugins-geanyctags is Generate and query ctags files for a Geany project

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugins-geanyctags on CentOS 8.

What is geany-plugins-geanyctags

Even though Geany supports symbol definition searching by itself within the open files (and with a plugin support within the whole project), tag regeneration can become too slow for really big projects. This is why this plugin was created. It makes it possible to generate the tag file only once and just query it when searching for a particular symbol definition/declaration. This approach is fine for big projects where most of the codebase remains unchanged and the tag positions remain more or less static.

We can use yum or dnf to install geany-plugins-geanyctags on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install geany-plugins-geanyctags.

Install geany-plugins-geanyctags 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 geany-plugins-geanyctags using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install geany-plugins-geanyctags

Install geany-plugins-geanyctags 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 geany-plugins-geanyctags using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install geany-plugins-geanyctags

How To Uninstall geany-plugins-geanyctags on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the geany-plugins-geanyctags package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove geany-plugins-geanyctags

geany-plugins-geanyctags Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c/a73f6a4ab85fbc55e601588dcf6fd7f66ccc0d
/usr/lib64/geany/geanyctags.so
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/geanyctags
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/geanyctags/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/geanyctags/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/geanyctags/README

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugins-geanyctags on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.