How To Install autogen on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install autogen on Ubuntu 20.04. autogen is automated text file generator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install autogen on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is autogen

autogen is:

AutoGen is a tool designed for generating program files that contain repetitive text with varied substitutions. This is especially valuable if there are several blocks of such text that must be kept synchronized.

Included with AutoGen is a tool that virtually eliminates the hassle of processing options, keeping usage text up to date and so on. This tool allows you to specify several program attributes, innumerable options and option attributes, then it produces all the code necessary to parse and handle the command line and initialization file options.

This package contains the development tools. libopts25-dev contains the static libraries and header files. libopts25 contains the shared libraries. autogen-doc contains the PostScript and HTML documentation.

There are three methods to install autogen on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install autogen Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install autogen using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install autogen

Install autogen Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install autogen using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install autogen

Install autogen Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install autogen using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install autogen

How To Uninstall autogen on Ubuntu 20.04

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

sudo apt-get remove autogen

Uninstall autogen And Its Dependencies

To uninstall autogen and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove autogen

Remove autogen Configurations and Data

To remove autogen configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge autogen

Remove autogen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove autogen configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge autogen

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install autogen package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.