How To Install automoc on Fedora 34

automoc is Automatic moc for Qt 4

Introduction

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

What is automoc

This package contains the automoc4 binary which is used to run moc on the right source files in a Qt 4 or KDE 4 application. Moc is the meta object compiler which is a widely used tool with Qt and creates standard C++ files to provide syntactic sugar of the signal/slots mechanism.

We can use yum or dnf to install automoc on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install automoc.

Install automoc 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 automoc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install automoc

Install automoc 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 automoc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install automoc

How To Uninstall automoc on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove automoc

automoc Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/automoc4
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/94925b2d4b9064205df83f067941caa75a3132
/usr/lib64/automoc4
/usr/lib64/automoc4/Automoc4Config.cmake
/usr/lib64/automoc4/Automoc4Version.cmake
/usr/lib64/automoc4/automoc4.files.in

References

Summary

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