How To Install automake on Fedora 34
automake is A GNU tool for automatically creating Makefiles
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install automake on Fedora 34.
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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install automake.
Install automake 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 automake using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install automake
Install automake 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 automake using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install automake
How To Uninstall automake on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the automake package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove automake
automake Package Contents on Fedora 34
/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
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install automake on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.