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When I try to install bison on my ubuntu 14.04 using the command sudo apt-get install bison, the version 3 is installed.

I would like to downgrade bison to use the version 2.7.

How can I do it?

Thanks.

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  • I have a better solution, Check my answer :)
    – Salehi
    May 16, 2015 at 16:27

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I installed last pkgs of bison (2.7.1) and libbison-dev (2.7.1) from Saucy and it worked like a charm.

wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/140087283/libbison-dev_2.7.1.dfsg-1_amd64.deb
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/140087282/bison_2.7.1.dfsg-1_amd64.deb
dpkg -i libbison-dev_2.7.1.dfsg-1_amd64.deb
dpkg -i bison_2.7.1.dfsg-1_amd64.deb

To prevent update manager from overwriting this package

apt-mark hold libbison-dev
apt-mark hold bison

Done.

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Just give the package version also as follows:

apt-get install pkg=version

and you can get all the available versions using apt-cache showpkg bison

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  • I tried apt-get install bison=2:2.7.1.dfsg-1 but apt-get still complain E: Version '2:2.7.1.dfsg-1' for 'bison' was not found
    – Bechir
    Apr 8, 2014 at 14:09
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    This will only work if bison 2.7 is there in the archives but it is not there. you can see it by running apt-cache showpkg bison to see the versions available. One easy way would be adding saucy dev repo just to install bison 2.7.
    – Stormvirux
    Apr 8, 2014 at 14:18
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    I fixed by manually installing it. I thought there is a clean way to do it :( . Any how, thanks for your help :)
    – Bechir
    Apr 8, 2014 at 14:25
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You can install bison version 2.7 via linuxbrew. Once you have installed linuxbrew by:

ruby -e "$(wget -O- https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew/go/install)"

and adding the following to the bottom of .bashrc or .zshrc:

export PATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

You can install Bison 2.7!

brew install bison27

Homebrew is meant for macs, so it will yell at you for not using your Mac properly if you run brew doctor. As Macs already have Bison installed, it will refuse to finish the install. You can safely force it by doing:

brew link bison27 --force

And now check bison -V to see you are using Bison 2.7!

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    linux brew shouldn't be a thing!
    – Greg
    Mar 4, 2015 at 15:27
  • @Greg it's convenient for mac users that want a simple script to make their linux and mac homes feel the same
    – Steve Buzonas
    Apr 13, 2015 at 2:39
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bison2 (2:2.7.1.dfsg-1-ppa1) is available from my ppa here

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    – Luís de Sousa
    Aug 6, 2014 at 18:59
  • Indeed, my answer doesn't explain how to downgrade, and I should have clarified that my package installs bison 2.7.1 alongside the v3 version in "trusty". (I also wasn't aware I can now comment on posts!)
    – RJVB
    Aug 6, 2014 at 22:14

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