Installation of flex and bison in ubuntu

Question

if the packages of flex and bison are not available in synaptic package manager,then how can one install flex and bison in ubuntu 10.04? and if i download any of these packages, can you just tell me the way to use them so that they get available in synaptic package manager?

Answer 1

Even better is:

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

which flex  /*Sanity check to make sure flex is installed*/
which bison /*Sanity check to make sure bison is installed*/