# Installer universal-ctags avec Homebrew, chocolatey, apt, MacPorts, Nix, zypper, pacman, scoop, winget, apk, dnf Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de universal-ctags pour les workflows d'agents IA. ## installation ```sh sudo av install brew:universal-ctags ``` Commandes d'installation supplémentaires: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install universal-ctags ``` Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install universal-ctags ``` Preuve: MacPorts ports tree: devel/universal-ctags/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install universal-ctags ``` Preuve: Debian stable package indexes: universal-ctags from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#universal-ctags ``` Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/un/universal-ctags/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install universal-ctags ``` Preuve: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: universal-ctags from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S ctags ``` Preuve: Arch Linux sync databases: ctags from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add ctags ``` Preuve: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: ctags from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install ctags ``` Preuve: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ctags from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst ### Windows - Chocolatey (92%): ```sh choco install universal-ctags ``` Preuve: Chocolatey community package catalog: universal-ctags from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','unikey' - Scoop (92%): ```sh scoop install extras/universal-ctags ``` Preuve: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/universal-ctags.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - winget (92%): ```sh winget install --id UniversalCtags.Ctags -e ``` Preuve: Windows Package Manager source index: UniversalCtags.Ctags from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## Faits du paquet - **Clé du paquet:** brew:universal-ctags - **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew - **Version:** 6.2.1 - **Résumé source:** Maintained ctags implementation - **Page d'accueil:** - **Dépôt:** - **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-05-15T12:49:28-04:00 - **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## exécutables - ctags (alias) - optscript (alias) - readtags (alias) ## Comportement d'installation - Bouteille: non disponible ## Version et fraîcheur - page générée: 2026-08-03 - version du gestionnaire: 6.2.1 ## Historique du projet et usages Universal Ctags is the maintained continuation of the ctags tradition: a command-line indexer that emits tag files for editors and source-navigation tools. Its package history is inseparable from Exuberant Ctags, whose development stalled after becoming the de facto multi-language ctags implementation. ### Historique du projet The Universal Ctags README states that Exuberant Ctags, maintained by Darren Hiebert, improved traditional ctags with multi-language support, user-defined regex languages, and Emacs TAGS output, but that project activity stalled. Reza Jelveh initially created a personal GitHub fork, and growing participation led to a dedicated Universal Ctags project. Universal Ctags set out to continue Exuberant Ctags in a shared working space. It added and improved language parsers, extended optlib for defining parsers, developed experimental interactive mode, and documented incompatibilities where the maintained implementation deliberately diverges from Exuberant behavior. ### Historique d'adoption ctags files are a long-standing contract between command-line indexers and editors. Universal Ctags' adoption grew because Vim, Emacs, source browsers, IDE plugins, static documentation tools, and cross-reference engines still benefit from a fast, language-aware tags generator. The official docs track related consumers and neighboring projects, including GNU Global, GNU Source-highlight, OpenGrok, Pygments, Geany, Anjuta, and Vim Tagbar. The input also shows broad packaging under names such as universal-ctags or ctags across Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Nix, MacPorts, Windows package managers, and others. ### Modes d'utilisation The basic package workflow is simple: run ctags over a source tree and point an editor or tool at the generated tags file. Advanced users customize language parsing, emitted fields, extras, pseudo-tags, and per-directory option files. Universal Ctags changed important configuration defaults compared with Exuberant Ctags. Its README calls out that it does not load ~/.ctags and ./.ctags at startup, preferring ~/.ctags.d/*.ctags and ./.ctags.d/*.ctags; that matters directly to package upgrades and dotfile migrations. ### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent Universal Ctags is package-nerd significant because it is a tiny binary with a huge blast radius: editors, code browsers, documentation systems, and source-search tools may all consume its output. Keeping it maintained keeps decades of ctags workflows viable for modern languages. It is also a clean example of the package-manager replacement pattern: distributions can switch users from an unmaintained upstream to a maintained fork while preserving the old command name and most file-format compatibility. ### Chronologie - Pre-2010s: Exuberant Ctags became the widely used multi-language ctags implementation. - 2010s: Exuberant Ctags activity stalled; Reza Jelveh created a GitHub fork. - 2010s: The fork became the Universal Ctags project as more contributors joined. - 2017: Windows daily builds documented the change away from loading legacy ~/.ctags-style files. - 2019: Windows daily builds documented default slash path separators and UTF-8 code page behavior on modern Windows. ### Related projects - Universal Ctags descends from Exuberant Ctags and traditional Unix ctags. Official docs also discuss Geany's derived tagging engine and downstream consumers such as GNU Global, OpenGrok, Pygments, GNU Source-highlight, Anjuta, and Tagbar. - Its companion commands and documentation include readtags, optscript, ctags-client-tools, ctags-optlib, and man pages covering tags file formats and incompatibilities. ### Sources - - - - - - source_facts.package-manager ## Notes de sécurité narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ctags/*.ctags, ~/.config/ctags/*.ctags, ~/.ctags.d/*.ctags, ./.ctags.d/*.ctags, ./ctags.d/*.ctags - Windows: %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\ctags.d\*.ctags ## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets - Debian apt - universal-ctags - 5.9.20210829.0-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: universal-ctags from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | build tag file indexes of source code definitions | https://ctags.io/ - Nix - universal-ctags: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/un/universal-ctags/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Ubuntu apt - universal-ctags - 5.9.20210829.0-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: universal-ctags from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | build tag file indexes of source code definitions | https://ctags.io/ - pacman - ctags - 1:6.2.1-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: ctags from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Generates an index file of language objects found in source files | https://ctags.io/ - zypper - universal-ctags - 6.2.1-1.3: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: universal-ctags from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | A program to generate language tag files used with various editors | https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags - MacPorts - universal-ctags: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/universal-ctags/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Chocolatey - universal-ctags: normalized package name match | Chocolatey community package catalog: universal-ctags from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','unikey' - Scoop - extras/universal-ctags: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/universal-ctags.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - winget - UniversalCtags.Ctags: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: UniversalCtags.Ctags from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix - winget - UniversalCtags.Ctags.Nightly: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: UniversalCtags.Ctags.Nightly from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix - MacPorts - ctags: installed executable or alias match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/ctags/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Nix - ctags: installed executable or alias match | nixpkgs package indexes: ctags from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix - apk - ctags - 6.2.1-r0: installed executable or alias match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: ctags from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Generator of tags for all types of C/C++ languages | https://ctags.io/ - apk - ctags-doc - 6.2.1-r0: installed executable or alias match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: ctags-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Generator of tags for all types of C/C++ languages (documentation) | https://ctags.io/ - dnf - ctags - 6.2.1-4.fc45: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ctags from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | A C programming language indexing and/or cross-reference tool | https://ctags.io/ - zypper - ctags - 5.8-15.5: installed executable or alias match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: ctags from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | A Program to Generate Tag Files for Use with vi and Other Editors | http://ctags.sourceforge.net/ ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/universal-ctags.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/universal-ctags.yml) ## Sources - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph