How To Install bison-devel on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bison-devel on Rocky Linux 8.
What is bison-devel
The bison-devel package contains the -ly library sometimes used by programs using Bison-generated parsers. If you are developing programs using Bison, you might want to link with this library. This library is not required by all Bison-generated parsers, but may be employed by simple programs to supply minimal support for the generated parsers.
We can use yum or dnf to install bison-devel on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bison-devel.
Install bison-devel on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install bison-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bison-devel
Install bison-devel on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install bison-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bison-devel
How To Uninstall bison-devel on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the bison-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bison-devel
bison-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/liby.a
/usr/share/doc/bison-devel
/usr/share/doc/bison-devel/COPYING
/usr/lib64/liby.a
/usr/share/doc/bison-devel
/usr/share/doc/bison-devel/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bison-devel on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
