How To Install exuberant-ctags on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install exuberant-ctags on Kali Linux.

What is exuberant-ctags

exuberant-ctags is:

ctags parses source code and produces a sort of index mapping the names of significant entities (e.g. functions, classes, variables) to the location where that entity is defined. This index is used by editors like vi and emacsen to allow moving to the definition of a user-specified entity.

Exuberant Ctags supports all possible C language constructions and multiple other languages such as assembler, AWK, ASP, BETA, Bourne/Korn/Z shell, C++, COBOL, Eiffel, Fortran, Java, Lisp, Lua, Makefile, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, REXX, Ruby, S-Lang, Scheme, Tcl, Verilog, Vim and YACC.

There are three methods to install exuberant-ctags on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install exuberant-ctags Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install exuberant-ctags using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install exuberant-ctags

Install exuberant-ctags Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install exuberant-ctags using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install exuberant-ctags

Install exuberant-ctags Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install exuberant-ctags using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install exuberant-ctags

How To Uninstall exuberant-ctags on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove exuberant-ctags

Uninstall exuberant-ctags And Its Dependencies

To uninstall exuberant-ctags and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove exuberant-ctags

Remove exuberant-ctags Configurations and Data

To remove exuberant-ctags configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge exuberant-ctags

Remove exuberant-ctags configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove exuberant-ctags configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge exuberant-ctags

Dependencies

exuberant-ctags have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• exuberant-ctags website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install exuberant-ctags package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.