How To Install antlr-tool on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install antlr-tool on CentOS 7. antlr-tool is ANother Tool for Language Recognition

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install antlr-tool on CentOS 7.

What is antlr-tool

ANTLR, ANother Tool for Language Recognition, (formerly PCCTS) is a language tool that provides a framework for constructing recognizers, compilers, and translators from grammatical descriptions containing C++ or Java actions [You can use PCCTS 1.xx to generate C-based parsers].

We can use yum or dnf to install antlr-tool on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install antlr-tool.

Install antlr-tool on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install antlr-tool using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install antlr-tool

Install antlr-tool on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install antlr-tool

How To Uninstall antlr-tool on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the antlr-tool package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove antlr-tool

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install antlr-tool on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.