How To Install automake on CentOS 8

automake is A GNU tool for automatically creating Makefiles

Introduction

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

What is `automake`

Automake is a tool for automatically generating `Makefile.in’ files compliant with the GNU Coding Standards. You should install Automake if you are developing software and would like to use its ability to automatically generate GNU standard Makefiles.

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

Install automake 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 automake using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install automake

Install automake 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 automake using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install automake

How To Uninstall automake on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove automake

automake Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/aclocal
/usr/bin/aclocal-1.16
/usr/bin/automake
/usr/bin/automake-1.16
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/amversion.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/ar-lib.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/as.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/auxdir.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/cond-if.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/cond.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/depend.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/depout.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/dmalloc.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/extra-recurs.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/gcj.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/init.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/install-sh.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/internal
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/internal/ac-config-macro-dirs.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/lead-dot.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/lex.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/lispdir.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/maintainer.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/make.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/missing.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/mkdirp.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/obsolete.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/options.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/prog-cc-c-o.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/python.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/runlog.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/sanity.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/silent.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/strip.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/substnot.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/tar.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/upc.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/vala.m4
/usr/share/automake-1.16
/usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake
/usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/Channels.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/Condition.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/Config.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/Configure_ac.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/DisjConditions.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/FileUtils.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/General.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/Getopt.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/Item.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/ItemDef.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/Language.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/Location.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/Options.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/Rule.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/RuleDef.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/VarDef.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/Variable.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/Version.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/Wrap.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/XFile.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.16/COPYING
/usr/share/automake-1.16/INSTALL
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/check.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/check2.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/clean-hdr.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/clean.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/compile.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/configure.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/data.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/dejagnu.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/depend.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/depend2.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/distdir.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/footer.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/header-vars.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/header.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/inst-vars.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/install.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/java.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/lang-compile.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/lex.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/library.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/libs.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/libtool.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/lisp.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/ltlib.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/ltlibrary.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/mans-vars.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/mans.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/program.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/progs.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/python.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/remake-hdr.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/scripts.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/subdirs.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/tags.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/texi-vers.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/texibuild.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/texinfos.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/vala.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/yacc.am
/usr/share/automake-1.16/ar-lib
/usr/share/automake-1.16/compile
/usr/share/automake-1.16/config.guess
/usr/share/automake-1.16/config.sub
/usr/share/automake-1.16/depcomp
/usr/share/automake-1.16/install-sh
/usr/share/automake-1.16/mdate-sh
/usr/share/automake-1.16/missing
/usr/share/automake-1.16/mkinstalldirs
/usr/share/automake-1.16/py-compile
/usr/share/automake-1.16/tap-driver.sh
/usr/share/automake-1.16/test-driver
/usr/share/automake-1.16/texinfo.tex
/usr/share/automake-1.16/ylwrap
/usr/share/doc/automake
/usr/share/doc/automake/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/automake/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/automake/README
/usr/share/doc/automake/README.aclocal
/usr/share/doc/automake/README.multilib
/usr/share/doc/automake/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/automake/amhello-1.0.tar.gz
/usr/share/info/automake-history.info.gz
/usr/share/info/automake.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/automake.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/automake.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/automake
/usr/share/licenses/automake/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/aclocal-1.16.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/aclocal.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/automake-1.16.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/automake.1.gz

References

automake website

Summary

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