general help for my project

[ashish_skaria]

i dont have much experience in ubuntu and i am going to do a project so i think i need assistance from you guys.

i need to find the current version of
bison
flex
zlib
make

if they are not installed in ubuntu or their version are outdated i need to install things.

any assistance in this matter willl be welcome.
i hope i have posted the query at the right place if not please redirect it to the relevant thread adn let me know the path


Thanks

[Rubberman]

If you have the current versio of Ubuntu installed (9.04 or 9.10) then you have the latest stable version of these tools. To find the version, enter the command with the --help option. Example:

[user@host]$ flex --version
flex version 2.5.35

FWIW, 2.5.35 is the latest version of flex. My CentOS (RHEL) 5.4 system is running 2.5.4, which is somewhat older. Anyway, most of these are GNU tools. You can find their home pages on the gnu web site, The GNU Operating System.

[ashish_skaria]

thanks mate, i got it
bison --version and flex --version
since it was not installed i need to install it.

sudo apt-get install bison
sudo apt-get install flex


thanks

[rokytnji]

Current Bison Build Page

Latest Flexbuild

Unless you can grab and install a zlib-1.2.3.8 from Arch Linux. The only stable zlib available is the 1.2.3 from Download zlib 1.2.3 for Linux - zlib is a compression/decompression Library. - Softpedia. Though Debian Squeeze or Sidux may have a later package. I don't know though. Ubuntu usually only uses stable releases. If you want cutting edge stuff. Install Sidux or Arch instead.

The other 2 links above I gave you require

build-essentials

installed in Ubuntu via Synaptic Package Manager. "Make" will be included when you install build essentials. To install from Source. Follow
Techie Moes Excellant Guide

[rokytnji]

Rubberman reply is better than mine. Use synaptic or apt-get to install stable versions instead of testing which is from source which can be a pain to do.