How To Install imake on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install imake
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is imake
Imake is a deprecated source code configuration and build system which has traditionally been supplied by and used to build the X Window System in X11R6 and previous releases. As of the X Window System X11R7 release, the X Window system has switched to using GNU autotools as the primary build system, and the Imake system is now deprecated, and should not be used by new software projects. Software developers are encouraged to migrate software to the GNU autotools system.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install imake
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install imake.
Install imake 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 imake
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install imake
Install imake 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 imake
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install imake
How To Uninstall imake on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the imake
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove imake
imake Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/ccmakedep
/usr/bin/cleanlinks
/usr/bin/gccmakedep
/usr/bin/imake
/usr/bin/lndir
/usr/bin/makedepend
/usr/bin/makeg
/usr/bin/mergelib
/usr/bin/mkdirhier
/usr/bin/mkhtmlindex
/usr/bin/revpath
/usr/bin/xmkmf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/55
/usr/lib/.build-id/55/44ce6fd3b8b77bce13f44a8caef1fc3e49b90e
/usr/lib/.build-id/86
/usr/lib/.build-id/86/b087cd5a114475d6631b0c832777fdb652973c
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac/41ab96f0c7cc7437f42b5370a4a14704c76051
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4/532d014c7940737918eda68066512fa3ed312b
/usr/share/X11/config
/usr/share/X11/config/Amoeba.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/DGUX.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/DragonFly.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/FreeBSD.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/Imake.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/Imake.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/Imake.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/Library.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/Mips.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/Motif.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/Motif.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/NetBSD.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/Oki.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/OpenBSD.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/OpenBSDLib.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/OpenBSDLib.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/QNX4.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/QNX4.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/Server.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/ServerLib.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/Threads.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/Win32.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/Win32.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/WinLib.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/X11.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/X11.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/apollo.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/bsd.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/bsdLib.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/bsdLib.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/bsdi.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/bsdiLib.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/bsdiLib.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/cde.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/cde.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/convex.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/cray.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/cross.def
/usr/share/X11/config/cross.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/cygwin.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/cygwin.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/cygwin.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/darwin.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/darwinLib.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/darwinLib.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/date.def
/usr/share/X11/config/dmx.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/fujitsu.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/generic.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/gnu.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/gnuLib.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/gnuLib.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/host.def
/usr/share/X11/config/hp.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/hpLib.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/hpLib.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/ibm.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/ibmLib.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/ibmLib.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/isc.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/linux.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/lnxLib.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/lnxLib.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/lnxdoc.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/lnxdoc.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/luna.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/lynx.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/macII.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/mach.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/mingw.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/mingw.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/mingw.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/minix.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/moto.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/ncr.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/nec.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/necLib.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/necLib.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/noop.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/nto.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/nto.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/oldlib.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/os2.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/os2.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/os2Lib.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/os2Lib.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/osf1.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/osfLib.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/osfLib.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/pegasus.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/sco.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/sco5.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/scoLib.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/sequent.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/sequentLib.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/sgi.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/sgiLib.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/sgiLib.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/site.def
/usr/share/X11/config/sony.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/sun.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/sunLib.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/sunLib.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/sv3Lib.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/sv3Lib.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/sv4Lib.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/sv4Lib.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/svr3.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/svr4.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/ultrix.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/usl.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/version.def
/usr/share/X11/config/x386.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/xf86.rules
/usr/share/X11/config/xf86.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/xf86site.def
/usr/share/X11/config/xfree86.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/xorg.cf
/usr/share/X11/config/xorg.tmpl
/usr/share/X11/config/xorgsite.def
/usr/share/X11/config/xorgversion.def
/usr/share/man/man1/ccmakedep.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cleanlinks.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gccmakedep.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/imake.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lndir.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/makedepend.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/makeg.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mergelib.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mkdirhier.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mkhtmlindex.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/revpath.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xmkmf.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install imake
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.