autogen is Automated text file generator
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install autogen on CentOS 8.
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 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install autogen.
Install autogen on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install autogen using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install autogen
Install autogen on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install autogen using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install autogen
How To Uninstall autogen on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the autogen package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove autogen
autogen Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/autogen
/usr/bin/columns
/usr/bin/getdefs
/usr/bin/xml2ag
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/7c5b76c30671a14a8cbb5c1694d84bf001946f
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/65138c9b25b90663fdf62fb3c05bdcd6f356ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2/1eeb0fb445f02119838f1e55f4945aa434eb18
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/7d6b4eaef948bf1844fbbbead475c65425757e
/usr/lib64/autogen
/usr/lib64/autogen/tpl-config.tlib
/usr/share/autogen
/usr/share/autogen/Mdoc.pm
/usr/share/autogen/aginfo.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/aginfo3.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/agman-cmd.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/agman-file.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/agman.tlib
/usr/share/autogen/agman1.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/agman3.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/agmdoc-cmd.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/agmdoc-file.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/agpl.lic
/usr/share/autogen/agtexi-cmd.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/agtexi-file.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/autoopts.m4
/usr/share/autogen/bits.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/cmd-doc.tlib
/usr/share/autogen/confmacs.tlib
/usr/share/autogen/conftest.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/def2pot.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/fsm-macro.tlib
/usr/share/autogen/fsm-trans.tlib
/usr/share/autogen/fsm.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/getopt.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/gpl.lic
/usr/share/autogen/gplv2.lic
/usr/share/autogen/lgpl.lic
/usr/share/autogen/lgplv2.lic
/usr/share/autogen/libopts-41.1.16.tar.gz
/usr/share/autogen/liboptschk.m4
/usr/share/autogen/man2mdoc
/usr/share/autogen/man2texi
/usr/share/autogen/mbsd.lic
/usr/share/autogen/mdoc2man
/usr/share/autogen/mdoc2texi
/usr/share/autogen/optcode.tlib
/usr/share/autogen/opthead.tlib
/usr/share/autogen/options.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/optlib.tlib
/usr/share/autogen/optmain.tlib
/usr/share/autogen/perlopt.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/rc-sample.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/stdoptions.def
/usr/share/autogen/str2enum.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/str2init.tlib
/usr/share/autogen/str2mask.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/strings.tpl
/usr/share/autogen/texi2man
/usr/share/autogen/texi2mdoc
/usr/share/autogen/tpl-config.tlib
/usr/share/autogen/usage.tlib
/usr/share/doc/autogen
/usr/share/doc/autogen/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/autogen/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/autogen/COPYING.gplv3
/usr/share/doc/autogen/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/autogen/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/autogen/README
/usr/share/doc/autogen/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/autogen/TODO
/usr/share/info/autogen.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/autogen.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/autogen.info-3.gz
/usr/share/info/autogen.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/autogen.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/columns.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/getdefs.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xml2ag.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install autogen on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
