How To Install jison on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install jison
on Kali Linux.
What is jison
jison is:
Jison generates bottom-up parsers in JavaScript. Its API is similar to Bison’s, hence the name. It supports many of Bison’s major features, plus some of its own.
Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
There are three methods to install jison
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 jison Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install jison
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install jison
Install jison Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install jison
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install jison
Install jison 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 jison
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install jison
How To Uninstall jison on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the jison
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove jison
Uninstall jison And Its Dependencies
To uninstall jison
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove jison
Remove jison Configurations and Data
To remove jison
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge jison
Remove jison configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove jison
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge jison
Dependencies
jison have the following dependencies:
- node-cjson
- node-ebnf-parser
- node-escodegen
- node-esprima
- node-jison-lex
- node-jsonselect
- node-lex-parser
- node-nomnom
- nodejs
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install jison
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.