Information about the package, bison, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The bison package is designed for, A GNU general-purpose parser generator.
Package Name:
bison
Summary:
A GNU general-purpose parser generator
Description:
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. Bison can be used to develop a wide range of language parsers, from ones used in simple desk calculators to complex programming languages. Bison is upwardly compatible with Yacc, so any correctly written Yacc grammar should work with Bison without any changes. If you know Yacc, you shouldn't have any trouble using Bison. You do need to be very proficient in C programming to be able to use Bison. Bison is only needed on systems that are used for development. If your system will be used for C development, you should install Bison.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.4.1
Release:
5.el6
Size:
2.0 M
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
GPLv3+
Control the bison package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install bison
This command will install bison on the server.
yum remove bison
This command will un-install bison on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove bison, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove bison
This command will un-install bison 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 bison when using the -y flag.
yum update bison
This command will update bison to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove bison, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update bison
This command will update bison 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 bison when using the -y flag.
yum info bison
This command will show you core information about the bison package.
yum deplist bison
This command will show you the dependencies for bison. 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 bison
This command will check if there is an update waiting on bison. 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.