How To Install autogen on Fedora 34

autogen is Automated text file generator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install autogen on Fedora 34.

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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install autogen.

Install autogen on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove autogen

autogen Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/autogen
/usr/bin/columns
/usr/bin/getdefs
/usr/bin/xml2ag
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b/62087999d4265115fb121ff215d3df5fcdd7e1
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/b4ded07c0c163e20d01fc8aef78fc7115b3ea7
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7/c888aff5cca9938ae69def7ebd2d3c25311bdc
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/98aad7cabccd55801d931f90a4b41e3ee77225
/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/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-42.1.17.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.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

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install autogen on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.