How To Install byacc on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install byacc on Rocky Linux 8.
What is byacc
This package provides a parser generator utility that reads a grammar specification from a file and generates an LR(1) parser for it. The parsers consist of a set of LALR(1) parsing tables and a driver routine written in the C programming language. It has a public domain license which includes the generated C. If you are going to do development on your system, you will want to install this package.
We can use yum or dnf to install byacc on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install byacc.
Install byacc on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install byacc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install byacc
Install byacc on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install byacc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install byacc
How To Uninstall byacc on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the byacc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove byacc
byacc Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/byacc
/usr/bin/yacc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9/50c3516a2b9e107b4faf454c17cd0ddcfe8cb0
/usr/share/doc/byacc
/usr/share/doc/byacc/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
/usr/share/doc/byacc/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/byacc/NEW_FEATURES
/usr/share/doc/byacc/NOTES
/usr/share/doc/byacc/NO_WARRANTY
/usr/share/doc/byacc/README
/usr/share/man/man1/byacc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/yacc.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install byacc on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.