How To Install jison on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install jison on Debian 9.

What is jison

jison is:

Jison generates bottom-up parsers in JavaScript. Its API is similar to Bison’s, hence the name. It supports many of Bison’s major features, plus some of its own.

Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.

There are three methods to install jison on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install jison Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install jison using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install jison

Install jison Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install jison using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install jison

Install jison Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install jison using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install jison

How To Uninstall jison on Debian 9

To uninstall only the jison package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove jison

Uninstall jison And Its Dependencies

To uninstall jison and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove jison

Remove jison Configurations and Data

To remove jison configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge jison

Remove jison configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove jison configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge jison

Dependencies

jison have the following dependencies:

• nodejs
• node-escodegen
• node-jison-lex
• node-ebnf-parser
• node-cjson
• node-jsonselect
• node-nomnom
• node-lex-parser
• node-esprima

References

• jison website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install jison package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.