installing ctags

[John D Lamb]

On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 05:26 +0000, thufir wrote:
> Is there some trick to installing ctags?
> update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for etags.
> update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/ctags-exuberant to provide /usr/bin/
> etags (etags) in auto mode.

The error appears to be in update-alternatives and not in the
installation. Have you tried typing

$ ctags

or

$ which ctags

from a console? If these commands suggest ctags is installed you
probably don’t have a problem.

-- 
John D Lamb