How To Install universal-ctags on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install universal-ctags
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is universal-ctags
universal-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.
Universal Ctags is a fork of Exuberant Ctags that adds additional features as well as support for more languages.
There are three methods to install universal-ctags
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install universal-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 universal-ctags
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install universal-ctags
Install universal-ctags Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install universal-ctags
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install universal-ctags
Install universal-ctags Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install universal-ctags
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install universal-ctags
How To Uninstall universal-ctags on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the universal-ctags
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove universal-ctags
Uninstall universal-ctags And Its Dependencies
To uninstall universal-ctags
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove universal-ctags
Remove universal-ctags Configurations and Data
To remove universal-ctags
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge universal-ctags
Remove universal-ctags configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove universal-ctags
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge universal-ctags
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install universal-ctags
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.