How To Install m4.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install m4.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. m4.x86_64 is The GNU macro processor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install m4.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `m4.x86_64`

A GNU implementation of the traditional UNIX macro processor. M4 is useful for writing text files which can be logically parsed, and is used by many programs as part of their build process. M4 has built-in functions for including files, running shell commands, doing arithmetic, etc. The autoconf program needs m4 for generating configure scripts, but not for running configure scripts. Install m4 if you need a macro processor.

We can use yum to install m4.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install m4.x86_64.

Install m4.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 m4.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install m4.x86_64

How To Uninstall m4.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the m4.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove m4.x86_64

m4.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/m4
/usr/share/doc/m4-1.4.16
/usr/share/doc/m4-1.4.16/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/m4-1.4.16/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/m4-1.4.16/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/m4-1.4.16/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/m4-1.4.16/README
/usr/share/doc/m4-1.4.16/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/m4-1.4.16/TODO
/usr/share/info/m4.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/m4.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/m4.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/m4.1.gz

References

m4.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install m4.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.