How To Install byacc.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install byacc.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. byacc.x86_64 is Berkeley Yacc, a parser generator

Introduction

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

What is `byacc.x86_64`

This package provides a parser generator utility that reads a grammar specification from a file and generates an LR(1) parser for it. The parsers consist of a set of LALR(1) parsing tables and a driver routine written in the C programming language. It has a public domain license which includes the generated C. If you are going to do development on your system, you will want to install this package.

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

Install byacc.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 byacc.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install byacc.x86_64

How To Uninstall byacc.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove byacc.x86_64

byacc.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/byacc
/usr/bin/yacc
/usr/share/doc/byacc-1.9.20130304
/usr/share/doc/byacc-1.9.20130304/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
/usr/share/doc/byacc-1.9.20130304/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/byacc-1.9.20130304/NEW_FEATURES
/usr/share/doc/byacc-1.9.20130304/NOTES
/usr/share/doc/byacc-1.9.20130304/NO_WARRANTY
/usr/share/doc/byacc-1.9.20130304/README
/usr/share/man/man1/byacc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/yacc.1.gz

References

byacc.x86_64 website

Summary

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