How To Install otags on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install otags on Kali Linux.

What is otags

otags is:

Otags generates “tags” files for emacs and vi/vim to give these editors the ability to directly jump to function and value definitions. Otags is based on Camlp4. It can load all Camlp4 syntax extensions and can therefore parse all sources that Camlp4 can parse (including standard and revised syntax).

There are three methods to install otags 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 otags Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install otags

Install otags Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install otags using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install otags

Install otags 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 otags using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install otags

How To Uninstall otags on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove otags

Uninstall otags And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove otags

Remove otags Configurations and Data

To remove otags configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge otags

Remove otags configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge otags

Dependencies

otags have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• otags website

Summary

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