btyacc command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

btyacc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: btyacc: command not found

Solutions to btyacc: command not found

How To Fix btyacc: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu btyacc is provided by btyacc package.

btyacc is:

btyacc is a hacked version of the original Berkeley “byacc”. The main change to byacc is the addition of backtracking code, allowing you to try both alternatives in case of shift-reduce or reduce-reduce conflicts. As long as no backtracking takes place, the speed is comparable to bison’s one.

Additional features:

• Enhanced support for storing of text position information for tokens.
• Closes the potential *yacc/bison memory leak during error recovery.
• Preprocessor directives like %ifdef, %include.
• C++ friendly.

Related packages: bison, byacc, antlr

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install btyacc

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install btyacc.

sudo apt -y install btyacc

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install btyacc

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix btyacc command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.