How To Install cscope on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cscope
on CentOS 7.
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 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cscope.
Install cscope on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install cscope
using yum
by running the following command:
Install cscope on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install cscope
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall cscope on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the cscope
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cscope
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.