htags-server command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

htags-server: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: htags-server: command not found

Solutions to htags-server: command not found

How To Fix htags-server: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu htags-server is provided by global package.

global is:

GNU GLOBAL is a source code tag system that works the same way across diverse environments. Currently, it supports the following:

o command line, and the ‘globash’ query subshell. o vim plugin, and support for other vi clones. o less o emacs o web browser

Supported languages are C, C++, yacc and Java. You can locate a specified function in the source files and move there easily. It is especially useful for hacking large projects containing many subdirectories, many ‘#ifdef’ and many main() functions, like X or kernel source.

Doxygen now supports using global as its source browser, with the USE_HTAGS option.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install global

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install global.

sudo apt -y install global

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install global

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix htags-server command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.