How To Install gotags on Fedora 34

gotags is ctags-compatible tag generator for Go

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gotags on Fedora 34.

What is gotags

ctags-compatible tag generator for Go.

We can use yum or dnf to install gotags on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gotags.

Install gotags on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install gotags using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gotags

Install gotags on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install gotags using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gotags

How To Uninstall gotags on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the gotags package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gotags

gotags Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/gotags
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/db
/usr/lib/.build-id/db/23d6a745248bb87f534834d8135d25ff611535
/usr/share/doc/gotags
/usr/share/doc/gotags/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/gotags
/usr/share/licenses/gotags/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gotags on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.