How To Install sablecc on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sablecc
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is sablecc
sablecc is:
SableCC is a parser generator which generates fully featured object-oriented frameworks for building compilers, interpreters and other text parsers.
In particular, generated frameworks include intuitive strictly-typed abstract syntax trees and tree walkers. SableCC also keeps a clean separation between machine-generated code and user-written code.
This package also contains AntTask, a task to invoke SableCC on grammar files.
There are three methods to install sablecc
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install sablecc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sablecc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sablecc
Install sablecc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sablecc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sablecc
Install sablecc Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install sablecc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sablecc
How To Uninstall sablecc on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the sablecc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sablecc
Uninstall sablecc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sablecc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sablecc
Remove sablecc Configurations and Data
To remove sablecc
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sablecc
Remove sablecc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sablecc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sablecc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sablecc
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.