automake is A GNU tool for automatically creating Makefiles
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install automake on CentOS 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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install automake.
Install automake 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 automake using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install automake
Install automake 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 automake using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install automake
How To Uninstall automake on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the automake package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove automake
automake Package Contents on CentOS 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
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install automake on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
