How To Install autogen on CentOS 8

autogen is Automated text file generator

Introduction

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

What is `autogen`

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 or dnf to install autogen on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install autogen.

Install autogen 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 autogen using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install autogen

Install autogen 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 autogen using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install autogen

How To Uninstall autogen on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove autogen

autogen Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/autogen
/usr/bin/columns
/usr/bin/getdefs
/usr/bin/xml2ag
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/7c5b76c30671a14a8cbb5c1694d84bf001946f
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/65138c9b25b90663fdf62fb3c05bdcd6f356ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2/1eeb0fb445f02119838f1e55f4945aa434eb18
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/7d6b4eaef948bf1844fbbbead475c65425757e
/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
/usr/share/doc/autogen/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/autogen/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/autogen/COPYING.gplv3
/usr/share/doc/autogen/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/autogen/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/autogen/README
/usr/share/doc/autogen/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/autogen/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

autogen website

Summary

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