How To Install m4 on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install m4 on Fedora 34.
What is m4
A GNU implementation of the traditional UNIX macro processor. M4 is useful for writing text files which can be logically parsed, and is used by many programs as part of their build process. M4 has built-in functions for including files, running shell commands, doing arithmetic, etc. The autoconf program needs m4 for generating configure scripts, but not for running configure scripts. Install m4 if you need a macro processor.
We can use yum or dnf to install m4 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install m4.
Install m4 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 m4 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install m4
Install m4 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 m4 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install m4
How To Uninstall m4 on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the m4 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove m4
m4 Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/m4
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/85
/usr/lib/.build-id/85/1ca62dbe7fc3ac0174d2f8db22138b4949efba
/usr/share/doc/m4
/usr/share/doc/m4/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/m4/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/m4/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/m4/README
/usr/share/doc/m4/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/m4/TODO
/usr/share/info/m4.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/m4.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/m4.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/m4
/usr/share/licenses/m4/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/m4.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install m4 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.