Information about the package, byacc, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The byacc package is designed for, Berkeley Yacc, a parser generator.
Package Name:
byacc
Summary:
Berkeley Yacc, a parser generator
Description:
Byacc (Berkeley Yacc) is a public domain LALR parser generator which is used by many programs during their build process. If you are going to do development on your system, you will want to install this package.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.9.20070509
Release:
7.el6
Size:
48 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
Public Domain
Control the byacc package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install byacc
This command will install byacc on the server.
yum remove byacc
This command will un-install byacc on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove byacc, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove byacc
This command will un-install byacc on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove byacc when using the -y flag.
yum update byacc
This command will update byacc to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove byacc, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update byacc
This command will update byacc to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove byacc when using the -y flag.
yum info byacc
This command will show you core information about the byacc package.
yum deplist byacc
This command will show you the dependencies for byacc. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update byacc
This command will check if there is an update waiting on byacc. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.