How To Install antlr4 on Fedora 34

antlr4 is Parser generator (ANother Tool for Language Recognition)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install antlr4 on Fedora 34.

What is antlr4

ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition) is a powerful parser generator for reading, processing, executing, or translating structured text or binary files. It is widely used to build languages, tools, and frameworks. From a grammar, ANTLR generates a parser that can build and walk parse trees. This package provides the ANTLR parser generator.

We can use yum or dnf to install antlr4 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install antlr4.

Install antlr4 on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install antlr4 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install antlr4

Install antlr4 on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install antlr4 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install antlr4

How To Uninstall antlr4 on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the antlr4 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove antlr4

antlr4 Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/antlr4
/usr/share/doc/antlr4
/usr/share/doc/antlr4/CHANGES.txt
/usr/share/doc/antlr4/contributors.txt
/usr/share/java/antlr4
/usr/share/java/antlr4/antlr4.jar
/usr/share/man/man1/antlr4.1.gz
/usr/share/maven-metadata/antlr4-antlr4.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/antlr4
/usr/share/maven-poms/antlr4/antlr4.pom

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install antlr4 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.