How To Install bison-doc on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bison-doc on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is bison-doc
bison-doc 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.
This package contains the PDF and Info documentation for Bison.
There are three methods to install bison-doc 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-doc 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-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bison-doc
Install bison-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bison-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bison-doc
Install bison-doc 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-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bison-doc
How To Uninstall bison-doc on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the bison-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bison-doc
Uninstall bison-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bison-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bison-doc
Remove bison-doc Configurations and Data
To remove bison-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bison-doc
Remove bison-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bison-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bison-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bison-doc package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
