How To Install proj on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install proj on Rocky Linux 8. proj is Cartographic projection software (PROJ)

Introduction

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

What is proj

Proj and invproj perform respective forward and inverse transformation of cartographic data to or from cartesian data with a wide range of selectable projection functions.

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

Install proj 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 proj using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install proj

Install proj 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 proj using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install proj

How To Uninstall proj on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove proj

proj Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/cct
/usr/bin/cs2cs
/usr/bin/geod
/usr/bin/gie
/usr/bin/invgeod
/usr/bin/invproj
/usr/bin/proj
/usr/bin/projinfo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/06
/usr/lib/.build-id/06/4337d965552e04a883bc36289058a9dd888a3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/062b9ff0d69792b7e3e728906f1c7c1d314a5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/57
/usr/lib/.build-id/57/084956e766ad905176157c0a51647a7c96c0e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/77
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/e0042e72c3f72426c67f523c00bcf5780f8a43
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f/133a20647aba1f725167f4b9df46fe5cd129ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/a27c39fbae10f34d1bf65d348d7b57991a79b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/660cd1e7c69b3ae15a6475967b2ed0c2e762ab
/usr/lib64/libproj.so.15
/usr/lib64/libproj.so.15.3.2
/usr/share/doc/proj
/usr/share/doc/proj/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/proj/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/proj/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/proj/README
/usr/share/licenses/proj
/usr/share/licenses/proj/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/cct.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cs2cs.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/geod.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gie.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/proj.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/projinfo.1.gz
/usr/share/proj
/usr/share/proj/CH
/usr/share/proj/GL27
/usr/share/proj/ITRF2000
/usr/share/proj/ITRF2008
/usr/share/proj/ITRF2014
/usr/share/proj/nad.lst
/usr/share/proj/nad27
/usr/share/proj/nad83
/usr/share/proj/null
/usr/share/proj/other.extra
/usr/share/proj/proj.db
/usr/share/proj/world

References

Summary

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