How To Install autogen on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install autogen on Rocky Linux 8. autogen is Automated text file generator

Introduction

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

What is autogen

AutoGen is a tool designed to simplify the creation and maintenance of programs that contain large amounts of repetitious text. It is especially valuable in programs that have several blocks of text that must be kept synchronised.

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

Install autogen 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 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install autogen

Install autogen 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 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install autogen

How To Uninstall autogen on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove autogen

autogen Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/autogen
/usr/bin/columns
/usr/bin/getdefs
/usr/bin/xml2ag
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e/d3a21250ae24ce12cbd2b39c00b9dc82d9162e
/usr/lib/.build-id/75
/usr/lib/.build-id/75/3613d6cf5fdcce9fdfe77635709439a2783d9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/db
/usr/lib/.build-id/db/d43997759c396f1b3882263e8648594231235a
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/5a571d6939a7f17409f368eee26bc7c6f2422b
/usr/lib64/autogen
/usr/lib64/autogen/tpl-config.tlib
/usr/share/autogen
/usr/share/autogen/Mdoc.pm
/usr/share/autogen/aginfo.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/aginfo3.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/agman-cmd.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/agman-file.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/agman.tlib
/usr/share/autogen/agman1.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/agman3.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/agmdoc-cmd.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/agmdoc-file.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/agpl.lic
/usr/share/autogen/agtexi-cmd.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/agtexi-file.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/autoopts.m4
/usr/share/autogen/bits.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/cmd-doc.tlib
/usr/share/autogen/confmacs.tlib
/usr/share/autogen/conftest.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/def2pot.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/fsm-macro.tlib
/usr/share/autogen/fsm-trans.tlib
/usr/share/autogen/fsm.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/getopt.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/gpl.lic
/usr/share/autogen/gplv2.lic
/usr/share/autogen/lgpl.lic
/usr/share/autogen/lgplv2.lic
/usr/share/autogen/libopts-41.1.16.tar.gz
/usr/share/autogen/liboptschk.m4
/usr/share/autogen/man2mdoc
/usr/share/autogen/man2texi
/usr/share/autogen/mbsd.lic
/usr/share/autogen/mdoc2man
/usr/share/autogen/mdoc2texi
/usr/share/autogen/optcode.tlib
/usr/share/autogen/opthead.tlib
/usr/share/autogen/options.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/optlib.tlib
/usr/share/autogen/optmain.tlib
/usr/share/autogen/perlopt.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/rc-sample.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/stdoptions.def
/usr/share/autogen/str2enum.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/str2init.tlib
/usr/share/autogen/str2mask.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/strings.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/texi2man
/usr/share/autogen/texi2mdoc
/usr/share/autogen/tpl-config.tlib
/usr/share/autogen/usage.tlib
/usr/share/doc/autogen
/usr/share/doc/autogen/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/autogen/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/autogen/COPYING.gplv3
/usr/share/doc/autogen/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/autogen/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/autogen/README
/usr/share/doc/autogen/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/autogen/TODO
/usr/share/info/autogen.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/autogen.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/autogen.info-3.gz
/usr/share/info/autogen.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/autogen.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/columns.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/getdefs.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xml2ag.1.gz

References

Summary

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