How To Install bison-devel on CentOS 8

bison-devel is -ly library for development using Bison-generated parsers -ly library for development using Bison-generated parsers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bison-devel on CentOS 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. bison-devel 3.0.4 10.el8 x86_64 30 k bison-3.0.4-10.el8.src.rpm powertools -ly library for development using Bison-generated parsers http GPLv3+ 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 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 CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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 CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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 CentOS 8

To uninstall only the bison-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove bison-devel

bison-devel Package Contents on CentOS 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 CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.