How to Install and Uninstall autogen Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "autogen" package

This tutorial shows how to install autogen on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                autogen
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "autogen" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall autogen on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                autogen
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the autogen package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: autogen
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:5.18.16-4
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Andreas Metzler
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1167
Depends: guile-2.2-libs, libc6 (>= 2.17), libopts25 (>= 1:5.18.16), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), libopts25-dev (= 1:5.18.16-4), perl:any
Recommends: autogen-doc
Filename: pool/universe/a/autogen/autogen_5.18.16-4_amd64.deb
Size: 557828
MD5sum: c12ef779f0ea877db091464f019fa571
SHA1: 4689e429629d6f03a17f093cb1b6648220dfb722
SHA256: b55edab17a1b2dffc2912e0d026ea7373f0ae4d38c7edc5416b45f1af8009717
SHA512: 88a9a7bd31bde58376868fe8906d307526b3200e5fddde0ac848387927e9bc66239743600b9aa81a5b2279c028badee5ed63a05322a4d380d86c14a1de5a0c12
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/
Description-en: automated text file generator
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.
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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.
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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.
Description-md5: 0d58326715b8d7163a06b3be785ab22a