How To Install byacc on CentOS 8
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.
