How To Install root-cli on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install root-cli on Rocky Linux 8. root-cli is ROOT command line utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install root-cli on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `root-cli`

The ROOT command line utilities is a set of scripts for common tasks written in python.

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

Install root-cli 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 root-cli using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install root-cli

Install root-cli 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 root-cli using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install root-cli

How To Uninstall root-cli on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the root-cli package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove root-cli

root-cli Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/rootbrowse
/usr/bin/rootcp
/usr/bin/rootdrawtree
/usr/bin/rooteventselector
/usr/bin/rootls
/usr/bin/rootmkdir
/usr/bin/rootmv
/usr/bin/rootprint
/usr/bin/rootrm
/usr/bin/rootslimtree
/usr/share/root/cli
/usr/share/root/cli/__pycache__
/usr/share/root/cli/__pycache__/cmdLineUtils.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/share/root/cli/__pycache__/cmdLineUtils.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/share/root/cli/cmdLineUtils.py

References

root-cli website

Summary

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