How To Install bison-doc on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bison-doc on Kali Linux.

What is bison-doc

bison-doc is:

Bison is a general-purpose parser generator that converts a grammar description for an LALR(1) context-free grammar into a C program to parse that grammar. Once you are proficient with Bison, you may use it to develop a wide range of language parsers, from those used in simple desk calculators to complex programming languages.

This package contains the PDF and Info documentation for Bison.

There are three methods to install bison-doc on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install bison-doc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install bison-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install bison-doc

Install bison-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install bison-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install bison-doc

Install bison-doc Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install bison-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bison-doc

How To Uninstall bison-doc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the bison-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove bison-doc

Uninstall bison-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bison-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bison-doc

Remove bison-doc Configurations and Data

To remove bison-doc configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bison-doc

Remove bison-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove bison-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bison-doc

Dependencies

bison-doc have the following dependencies:

References

• bison-doc website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bison-doc package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.