How to Install and Uninstall autogen Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: February 16,2025

1. Install "autogen" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install autogen on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall autogen on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: autogen
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Installed-Size: 1145
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Andreas Metzler
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:5.18.7-3
Depends: guile-2.0-libs, libc6 (>= 2.14), libopts25 (>= 1:5.18.7), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), libopts25-dev (= 1:5.18.7-3)
Recommends: autogen-doc
Filename: pool/universe/a/autogen/autogen_5.18.7-3_amd64.deb
Size: 549714
MD5sum: 120c4930ffe7578105a9689b6a2ebe78
SHA1: 2bffee9894a22950e5bcf3f5d576e7af15b6d517
SHA256: 15198641f60acdeac812017cdccbbf6895b3de8a22468f0b3a18534ce883247f
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
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu