How To Install bison-devel on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bison-devel on CentOS 7.
What is bison-devel
The bison-devel package contains the -ly library sometimes used by programs using Bison-generated parsers. If you are developing programs using Bison, you might want to link with this library. This library is not required by all Bison-generated parsers, but may be employed by simple programs to supply minimal support for the generated parsers. The bison-devel package contains the -ly library sometimes used by programs using Bison-generated parsers. If you are developing programs using Bison, you might want to link with this library. This library is not required by all Bison-generated parsers, but may be employed by simple programs to supply minimal support for the generated parsers.
We can use yum or dnf to install bison-devel on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bison-devel.
Install bison-devel on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install bison-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bison-devel
Install bison-devel 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 bison-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bison-devel
How To Uninstall bison-devel on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the bison-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bison-devel
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bison-devel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.