How To Install automoc.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install automoc.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. automoc.x86_64 is Automatic moc for Qt 4

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install automoc.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is automoc.x86_64

This package contains the automoc4 binary which is used to run moc on the right source files in a Qt 4 or KDE 4 application. Moc is the meta object compiler which is a widely used tool with Qt and creates standard C++ files to provide syntactic sugar of the signal/slots mechanism.

We can use yum to install automoc.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install automoc.x86_64.

Install automoc.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install automoc.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install automoc.x86_64

How To Uninstall automoc.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the automoc.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove automoc.x86_64

automoc.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/automoc4
/usr/lib64/automoc4
/usr/lib64/automoc4/Automoc4Config.cmake
/usr/lib64/automoc4/Automoc4Version.cmake
/usr/lib64/automoc4/automoc4.files.in

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install automoc.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.