How To Install automake on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install automake on Rocky Linux 8. automake is A GNU tool for automatically creating Makefiles

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install automake on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install automake.

Install automake on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install automake using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install automake

Install automake on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove automake

automake Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/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

automake website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install automake on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.