How To Install rusty-tags on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rusty-tags on Kali Linux.

What is rusty-tags

rusty-tags is:

rusty-tags is a command-line tool that creates tags for source code navigation using ctags for a cargo project, all of its direct and indirect dependencies and the Rust standard library.

This package contains the following binaries built from the Rust crate “rusty-tags”:

• rusty-tags

There are three methods to install rusty-tags 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 rusty-tags Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install rusty-tags

Install rusty-tags Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install rusty-tags

Install rusty-tags 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 rusty-tags using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rusty-tags

How To Uninstall rusty-tags on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the rusty-tags package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove rusty-tags

Uninstall rusty-tags And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rusty-tags

Remove rusty-tags Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge rusty-tags

Remove rusty-tags configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rusty-tags

Dependencies

rusty-tags have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1

References

• rusty-tags website

Summary

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