How To Install autoconf.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install autoconf.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. autoconf.noarch is A GNU tool for automatically configuring source code

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install autoconf.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is autoconf.noarch

GNU’s Autoconf is a tool for configuring source code and Makefiles. Using Autoconf, programmers can create portable and configurable packages, since the person building the package is allowed to specify various configuration options. You should install Autoconf if you are developing software and would like to create shell scripts that configure your source code packages. If you are installing Autoconf, you will also need to install the GNU m4 package. Note that the Autoconf package is not required for the end-user who may be configuring software with an Autoconf-generated script; Autoconf is only required for the generation of the scripts, not their use.

We can use yum to install autoconf.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install autoconf.noarch.

Install autoconf.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install autoconf.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install autoconf.noarch

How To Uninstall autoconf.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the autoconf.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove autoconf.noarch

autoconf.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/autoconf
/usr/bin/autoheader
/usr/bin/autom4te
/usr/bin/autoreconf
/usr/bin/autoscan
/usr/bin/autoupdate
/usr/bin/ifnames
/usr/share/autoconf
/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te
/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/C4che.pm
/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm
/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/Channels.pm
/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm
/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm
/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/General.pm
/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/Getopt.pm
/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/Request.pm
/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/XFile.pm
/usr/share/autoconf/INSTALL
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/autoconf.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/autoconf.m4f
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/autoheader.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/autoscan.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/autotest.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/autoupdate.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/c.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/erlang.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/fortran.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/functions.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/general.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/go.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/headers.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/lang.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/libs.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/oldnames.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/programs.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/specific.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/status.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/types.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autom4te.cfg
/usr/share/autoconf/autoscan
/usr/share/autoconf/autoscan/autoscan.list
/usr/share/autoconf/autotest
/usr/share/autoconf/autotest/autotest.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autotest/autotest.m4f
/usr/share/autoconf/autotest/general.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autotest/specific.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/m4sugar
/usr/share/autoconf/m4sugar/foreach.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/m4sugar/m4sh.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/m4sugar/m4sh.m4f
/usr/share/autoconf/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4f
/usr/share/autoconf/m4sugar/version.m4
/usr/share/doc/autoconf-2.69
/usr/share/doc/autoconf-2.69/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/autoconf-2.69/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/autoconf-2.69/COPYING.EXCEPTION
/usr/share/doc/autoconf-2.69/COPYINGv3
/usr/share/doc/autoconf-2.69/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/autoconf-2.69/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/autoconf-2.69/README
/usr/share/doc/autoconf-2.69/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/autoconf-2.69/TODO
/usr/share/emacs
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/autoconf-mode.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/autoconf-mode.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/autotest-mode.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/autotest-mode.elc
/usr/share/info/autoconf.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/autoconf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/autoheader.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/autom4te.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/autoreconf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/autoscan.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/autoupdate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/config.guess.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/config.sub.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ifnames.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install autoconf.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.