How To Install bison-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bison-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is bison-devel.x86_64
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 to install bison-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bison-devel.x86_64.
Install bison-devel.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 bison-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bison-devel.x86_64
How To Uninstall bison-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the bison-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove bison-devel.x86_64
bison-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/lib64/liby.a
/usr/share/doc/bison-devel-3.0.4
/usr/share/doc/bison-devel-3.0.4/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bison-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.