How To Install autogen.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install autogen.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. autogen.x86_64 is Automated text file generator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install autogen.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is autogen.x86_64

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 to install autogen.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install autogen.x86_64.

Install autogen.x86_64 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 autogen.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install autogen.x86_64

How To Uninstall autogen.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the autogen.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove autogen.x86_64

autogen.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/autogen
/usr/bin/columns
/usr/bin/getdefs
/usr/bin/xml2ag
/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-5.18.12
/usr/share/doc/autogen-5.18.12/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/autogen-5.18.12/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/autogen-5.18.12/COPYING.gplv3
/usr/share/doc/autogen-5.18.12/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/autogen-5.18.12/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/autogen-5.18.12/README
/usr/share/doc/autogen-5.18.12/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/autogen-5.18.12/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.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.