How To Install bison-devel on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bison-devel on CentOS 7.
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. 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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bison-devel.
Install bison-devel on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install bison-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bison-devel
Install bison-devel on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install dnf first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install bison-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bison-devel
How To Uninstall bison-devel on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the bison-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bison-devel
bison-devel Package Contents on CentOS 7
/usr/lib/liby.a
/usr/share/doc/bison-devel-3.0.4
/usr/share/doc/bison-devel-3.0.4/COPYING
/usr/lib64/liby.a
/usr/share/doc/bison-devel-3.0.4
/usr/share/doc/bison-devel-3.0.4/COPYING
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bison-devel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.