How To Install lemon on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lemon on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is lemon
lemon is:
Lemon is an LALR(1) parser generator for C or C++. It does the same job as bison and yacc. But lemon is not another bison or yacc clone. It uses a different grammar syntax which is designed to reduce the number of coding errors. Lemon also uses a more sophisticated parsing engine that is faster than yacc and bison and which is both reentrant and thread-safe. Furthermore, Lemon implements features that can be used to eliminate resource leaks, making is suitable for use in long-running programs such as graphical user interfaces or embedded controllers.
There are three methods to install lemon 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 lemon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lemon using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lemon
Install lemon Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lemon using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lemon
Install lemon 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 lemon using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lemon
How To Uninstall lemon on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the lemon package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lemon
Uninstall lemon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lemon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lemon
Remove lemon Configurations and Data
To remove lemon configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lemon
Remove lemon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lemon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lemon
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lemon package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
