How To Install byacc on CentOS 8

byacc is Berkeley Yacc, a parser generator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install byacc on CentOS 8.

What is byacc

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 or dnf to install byacc on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install byacc.

Install byacc 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 byacc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install byacc

Install byacc 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 byacc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install byacc

How To Uninstall byacc on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove byacc

byacc Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/byacc
/usr/bin/yacc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc/076929428426a0ac6565aa7d29e1c615eb0067
/usr/share/doc/byacc
/usr/share/doc/byacc/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
/usr/share/doc/byacc/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/byacc/NEW_FEATURES
/usr/share/doc/byacc/NOTES
/usr/share/doc/byacc/NO_WARRANTY
/usr/share/doc/byacc/README
/usr/share/man/man1/byacc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/yacc.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install byacc on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.