How To Install automoc on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install automoc on CentOS 7. automoc is Automatic moc for Qt 4

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install automoc on CentOS 7.

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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install automoc.

Install automoc on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install automoc

Install automoc 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 automoc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install automoc

How To Uninstall automoc on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove automoc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install automoc on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.