How To Install autogen-libopts on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install autogen-libopts on Rocky Linux 8. autogen-libopts is Automated option processing library based on autogen

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install autogen-libopts on Rocky Linux 8.

What is autogen-libopts

Libopts is very powerful command line option parser consisting of a set of AutoGen templates and a run time library that nearly eliminates the hassle of parsing and documenting command line options.

We can use yum or dnf to install autogen-libopts on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install autogen-libopts.

Install autogen-libopts on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install autogen-libopts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install autogen-libopts

Install autogen-libopts on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install autogen-libopts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install autogen-libopts

How To Uninstall autogen-libopts on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the autogen-libopts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove autogen-libopts

autogen-libopts Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6/9617436a8c10c3558109e5bcf3edd1e1123c4f
/usr/lib/libopts.so.25
/usr/lib/libopts.so.25.16.1
/usr/share/doc/autogen-libopts
/usr/share/doc/autogen-libopts/COPYING.lgplv3
/usr/share/doc/autogen-libopts/COPYING.mbsd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1/8ac9fb380b9af1f403fbe46295382cc719439d
/usr/lib64/libopts.so.25
/usr/lib64/libopts.so.25.16.1
/usr/share/doc/autogen-libopts
/usr/share/doc/autogen-libopts/COPYING.lgplv3
/usr/share/doc/autogen-libopts/COPYING.mbsd

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install autogen-libopts on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.