ctags-exuberant command not found
Introduction
When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message
ctags-exuberant: command not found
or when using sudo you get the following error message
sudo: ctags-exuberant: command not found
Solutions to ctags-exuberant: command not found
How To Fix ctags-exuberant: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian
In Ubuntu ctags-exuberant is provided by exuberant-ctags package.
exuberant-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.
Exuberant Ctags supports all possible C language constructions and multiple other languages such as assembler, AWK, ASP, BETA, Bourne/Korn/Z shell, C++, COBOL, Eiffel, Fortran, Java, Lisp, Lua, Makefile, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, REXX, Ruby, S-Lang, Scheme, Tcl, Verilog, Vim and YACC.
To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.
sudo apt-get -y install exuberant-ctags
This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.
You can also use apt command to install exuberant-ctags.
sudo apt -y install exuberant-ctags
Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.
sudo aptitude install exuberant-ctags
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to fix ctags-exuberant command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.