How to Install and Uninstall gengetopt.x86_64 Package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8)

Last updated: January 10,2025

1. Install "gengetopt.x86_64" package

Please follow the instructions below to install gengetopt.x86_64 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8)


    
        
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                sudo dnf update
            
                    
    
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                sudo dnf install
            
                        
                gengetopt.x86_64
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "gengetopt.x86_64" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall gengetopt.x86_64 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8):


    
        
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                sudo dnf remove
            
                        
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                sudo dnf autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the gengetopt.x86_64 package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8)

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Available Packages
Name : gengetopt
Version : 2.23
Release : 3.el8
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 279 k
Source : gengetopt-2.23-3.el8.src.rpm
Repository : epel
Summary : Tool to write command line option parsing code for C programs
URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt/
License : GPLv3+
Description : Gengetopt is a tool to generate C code to parse the command line arguments
: argc and argv that are part of every C or C++ program. The generated code uses
: the C library function getopt_long to perform the actual command line parsing.