How To Install gnuplot on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuplot on Rocky Linux 8. gnuplot is A program for plotting mathematical expressions and data

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuplot on Rocky Linux 8.

What is gnuplot

Gnuplot is a command-line driven, interactive function plotting program especially suited for scientific data representation. Gnuplot can be used to plot functions and data points in both two and three dimensions and in many different formats. Install gnuplot if you need a graphics package for scientific data representation. This package provides a Qt based terminal version of gnuplot.

We can use yum or dnf to install gnuplot on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnuplot.

Install gnuplot on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install gnuplot using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gnuplot

Install gnuplot on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install gnuplot using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnuplot

How To Uninstall gnuplot on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the gnuplot package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gnuplot

gnuplot Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/gnuplot
/usr/bin/gnuplot-qt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d/db3494217ae4a6962f283bc80e5654bce5b979
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/5bddfe0d3cfedf9faa8489247914ca55e1632e
/usr/libexec/gnuplot/5.2/gnuplot_qt
/usr/share/doc/gnuplot
/usr/share/doc/gnuplot/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gnuplot/Copyright
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/qt
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/qt/qtgnuplot_fr.qm
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/qt/qtgnuplot_ja.qm

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuplot on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.