How To Install geany-plugin-ctags on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugin-ctags
on Kali Linux.
What is geany-plugin-ctags
geany-plugin-ctags is:
GeanyCtags adds a simple support for generating and querying ctags files for a Geany project.
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.
Geany is a small and lightweight integrated development environment using the Gtk+ toolkit.
There are three methods to install geany-plugin-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 geany-plugin-ctags Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install geany-plugin-ctags
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install geany-plugin-ctags Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install geany-plugin-ctags
using apt
by running the following command:
Install geany-plugin-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.
After updating apt database, We can install geany-plugin-ctags
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall geany-plugin-ctags on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the geany-plugin-ctags
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall geany-plugin-ctags And Its Dependencies
To uninstall geany-plugin-ctags
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove geany-plugin-ctags Configurations and Data
To remove geany-plugin-ctags
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove geany-plugin-ctags configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove geany-plugin-ctags
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
geany-plugin-ctags have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugin-ctags
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.