How To Install btyacc on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install btyacc
on Debian 10.
What is btyacc
btyacc is:
btyacc is a hacked version of the original Berkeley “byacc”. The main change to byacc is the addition of backtracking code, allowing you to try both alternatives in case of shift-reduce or reduce-reduce conflicts. As long as no backtracking takes place, speed is comparable to bison.
Additional features:
- enhanced support for storing of text position information for tokens
- closes the potential *yacc/bison memory leak during error recovery
- preprocessor directives like %ifdef, %include
- C++ friendly
Related packages: bison, byacc, antlr
There are three methods to install btyacc
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install btyacc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install btyacc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install btyacc
Install btyacc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install btyacc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install btyacc
Install btyacc Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install btyacc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install btyacc
How To Uninstall btyacc on Debian 10
To uninstall only the btyacc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove btyacc
Uninstall btyacc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall btyacc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove btyacc
Remove btyacc Configurations and Data
To remove btyacc
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge btyacc
Remove btyacc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove btyacc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge btyacc
Dependencies
btyacc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install btyacc
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.