How To Install astyle on CentOS 8

astyle is Source code formatter for C-like programming languages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install astyle on CentOS 8.

What is astyle

Artistic Style is a source code indenter, source code formatter, and source code beautifier for the C, C++, C# and Java programming languages.

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

Install astyle on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install astyle using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install astyle

Install astyle on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install astyle using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install astyle

How To Uninstall astyle on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove astyle

astyle Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/astyle
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c/c85162b02802c8484bb686e709419f873a3a2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/29
/usr/lib/.build-id/29/75ef1c7733bf98fa9fb06ec2b8f7c1ca39705f
/usr/lib64/libastyle.so.3
/usr/lib64/libastyle.so.3.1.0
/usr/share/doc/astyle
/usr/share/doc/astyle/astyle.html
/usr/share/doc/astyle/install.html
/usr/share/doc/astyle/news.html
/usr/share/doc/astyle/notes.html

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install astyle on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.