How to Install and Uninstall exuberant-ctags Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: October 18,2024

You can also install and uninstall the exuberant-ctags on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "exuberant-ctags" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install exuberant-ctags on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "exuberant-ctags" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall exuberant-ctags on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the exuberant-ctags package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: exuberant-ctags
Version: 1:5.9~svn20110310-18
Installed-Size: 345
Maintainer: Colin Watson
Architecture: amd64
Provides: ctags
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Suggests: vim | nvi | vile | emacsen
Description: build tag file indexes of source code definitions
Description-md5: dffcafa00047da8d3dac60f57fa4eef4
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://ctags.sourceforge.net/
Tag: devel::lang:c, devel::lang:c++, devel::lang:java, devel::lang:lisp,
devel::lang:lua, devel::lang:perl, devel::lang:php, devel::lang:python,
devel::lang:ruby, devel::lang:scheme, devel::lang:tcl, devel::library,
implemented-in::c, implemented-in::java, implemented-in::lisp,
implemented-in::perl, interface::commandline, role::devel-lib,
role::program, scope::utility, use::browsing, use::searching,
works-with::software:source
Section: editors
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/e/exuberant-ctags/exuberant-ctags_5.9~svn20110310-18_amd64.deb
Size: 147724
MD5sum: 9e0c68b03cd89a22d6bb0139b7bcb67d
SHA256: 58d118ab19b127c3ff6d1facb5f1eafe8e2b4dc5a10bc480bf01dbb86b993951