How To Install otags on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install otags on Ubuntu 22.04.
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 Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install 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 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 otags using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install otags
How To Uninstall otags on Ubuntu 22.04
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 Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove otags
Remove otags Configurations and Data
To remove otags configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install otags package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
