Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bison-devel on CentOS 8.
What is bison-devel
The bison-devel package contains the -ly library sometimes used by programs using Bison-generated parsers. If you are developing programs using Bison, you might want to link with this library. This library is not required by all Bison-generated parsers, but may be employed by simple programs to supply minimal support for the generated parsers. bison-devel 3.0.4 10.el8 x86_64 30 k bison-3.0.4-10.el8.src.rpm powertools -ly library for development using Bison-generated parsers http GPLv3+ The bison-devel package contains the -ly library sometimes used by programs using Bison-generated parsers. If you are developing programs using Bison, you might want to link with this library. This library is not required by all Bison-generated parsers, but may be employed by simple programs to supply minimal support for the generated parsers.
We can use yum or dnf to install bison-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bison-devel.
Install bison-devel on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bison-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bison-devel
Install bison-devel on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bison-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bison-devel
How To Uninstall bison-devel on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the bison-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bison-devel
bison-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/liby.a
/usr/share/doc/bison-devel
/usr/share/doc/bison-devel/COPYING
/usr/lib64/liby.a
/usr/share/doc/bison-devel
/usr/share/doc/bison-devel/COPYING
References
- [bison-devel website](http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/
http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bison-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
