How To Install bison on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bison on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is bison
bison 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.
Bison is upward compatible with Yacc: all properly-written Yacc grammars ought to work with Bison with no change. Anyone familiar with Yacc should be able to use Bison with little trouble. Documentation of the program is in the bison-doc package.
There are three methods to install bison on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install bison 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bison
Install bison Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bison using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bison
Install bison 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 bison using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bison
How To Uninstall bison on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the bison package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bison
Uninstall bison And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bison and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bison
Remove bison Configurations and Data
To remove bison configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bison
Remove bison configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bison configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bison
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bison package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
