How To Install autogen on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install autogen on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install autogen.
Install autogen on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install autogen using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install autogen
Install autogen on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install autogen using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install autogen
How To Uninstall autogen on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the autogen package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove autogen
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install autogen on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.