How To Install make on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install make on CentOS 8.
What is make
A GNU tool for controlling the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program’s source files. Make allows users to build and install packages without any significant knowledge about the details of the build process. The details about how the program should be built are provided for make in the program’s makefile.
We can use yum or dnf to install make on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install make.
Install make 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 make using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install make
Install make 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 make using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install make
How To Uninstall make on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the make package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove make
make Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/gmake
/usr/bin/make
/usr/include/gnumake.h
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/00
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/94444d90b611eade5f54c520fcc60f58f51fc8
/usr/share/doc/make
/usr/share/doc/make/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/make/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/make/README
/usr/share/info/make.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/make.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/make.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/make
/usr/share/licenses/make/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/gmake.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/make.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install make on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.