How To Install calc on CentOS 8

calc is Arbitrary precision arithmetic system and calculator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install calc on CentOS 8.

What is calc

Calc is an arbitrary precision C-like arithmetic system that is a calculator, an algorithm-prototyper, and a mathematical research tool. Calc comes with a rich set of built-in mathematical and programmatic functions. Note been converted to the ordinary GPL as per section 3 of the LGPL. See the included calc-converted-to-gpl.txt document for details.

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

Install calc on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install calc

Install calc on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install calc

How To Uninstall calc on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove calc

calc Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/calc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a/8c0fefc4ab36e801869cc48fafcc043ca26a27
/usr/share/calc
/usr/share/calc/help
/usr/share/calc/help/COPYING
/usr/share/calc/help/COPYING-GPL
/usr/share/calc/help/abs
/usr/share/calc/help/access
/usr/share/calc/help/acos
/usr/share/calc/help/acosh
/usr/share/calc/help/acot
/usr/share/calc/help/acoth
/usr/share/calc/help/acsc
/usr/share/calc/help/acsch
/usr/share/calc/help/address
/usr/share/calc/help/agd
/usr/share/calc/help/append
/usr/share/calc/help/appr
/usr/share/calc/help/archive
/usr/share/calc/help/arg
/usr/share/calc/help/argv
/usr/share/calc/help/arrow
/usr/share/calc/help/asec
/usr/share/calc/help/asech
/usr/share/calc/help/asin
/usr/share/calc/help/asinh
/usr/share/calc/help/assign
/usr/share/calc/help/assoc
/usr/share/calc/help/atan
/usr/share/calc/help/atan2
/usr/share/calc/help/atanh
/usr/share/calc/help/avg
/usr/share/calc/help/base
/usr/share/calc/help/base2
/usr/share/calc/help/bernoulli
/usr/share/calc/help/binding
/usr/share/calc/help/bindings
/usr/share/calc/help/bit
/usr/share/calc/help/blk
/usr/share/calc/help/blkcpy
/usr/share/calc/help/blkfree
/usr/share/calc/help/blocks
/usr/share/calc/help/bround
/usr/share/calc/help/btrunc
/usr/share/calc/help/bug
/usr/share/calc/help/bugs
/usr/share/calc/help/builtin
/usr/share/calc/help/calc_tty
/usr/share/calc/help/calclevel
/usr/share/calc/help/calcpath
/usr/share/calc/help/catalan
/usr/share/calc/help/ceil
/usr/share/calc/help/cfappr
/usr/share/calc/help/cfsim
/usr/share/calc/help/change
/usr/share/calc/help/changes
/usr/share/calc/help/char
/usr/share/calc/help/cmdbuf
/usr/share/calc/help/cmp
/usr/share/calc/help/comb
/usr/share/calc/help/command
/usr/share/calc/help/config
/usr/share/calc/help/conj
/usr/share/calc/help/contrib
/usr/share/calc/help/cos
/usr/share/calc/help/cosh
/usr/share/calc/help/cot
/usr/share/calc/help/coth
/usr/share/calc/help/count
/usr/share/calc/help/cp
/usr/share/calc/help/credit
/usr/share/calc/help/csc
/usr/share/calc/help/csch
/usr/share/calc/help/cscript
/usr/share/calc/help/ctime
/usr/share/calc/help/custom
/usr/share/calc/help/custom_cal
/usr/share/calc/help/define
/usr/share/calc/help/delete
/usr/share/calc/help/den
/usr/share/calc/help/dereference
/usr/share/calc/help/det
/usr/share/calc/help/digit
/usr/share/calc/help/digits
/usr/share/calc/help/display
/usr/share/calc/help/dp
/usr/share/calc/help/environment
/usr/share/calc/help/epsilon
/usr/share/calc/help/errcount
/usr/share/calc/help/errmax
/usr/share/calc/help/errno
/usr/share/calc/help/error
/usr/share/calc/help/errorcode
/usr/share/calc/help/errorcodes
/usr/share/calc/help/estr
/usr/share/calc/help/euler
/usr/share/calc/help/eval
/usr/share/calc/help/exp
/usr/share/calc/help/expression
/usr/share/calc/help/fact
/usr/share/calc/help/factor
/usr/share/calc/help/fclose
/usr/share/calc/help/fcnt
/usr/share/calc/help/feof
/usr/share/calc/help/ferror
/usr/share/calc/help/fflush
/usr/share/calc/help/fgetc
/usr/share/calc/help/fgetfield
/usr/share/calc/help/fgetfile
/usr/share/calc/help/fgetline
/usr/share/calc/help/fgets
/usr/share/calc/help/fgetstr
/usr/share/calc/help/fib
/usr/share/calc/help/file
/usr/share/calc/help/files
/usr/share/calc/help/floor
/usr/share/calc/help/fopen
/usr/share/calc/help/forall
/usr/share/calc/help/fpathopen
/usr/share/calc/help/fprintf
/usr/share/calc/help/fputc
/usr/share/calc/help/fputs
/usr/share/calc/help/fputstr
/usr/share/calc/help/frac
/usr/share/calc/help/free
/usr/share/calc/help/freebernoulli
/usr/share/calc/help/freeeuler
/usr/share/calc/help/freeglobals
/usr/share/calc/help/freeredc
/usr/share/calc/help/freestatics
/usr/share/calc/help/frem
/usr/share/calc/help/freopen
/usr/share/calc/help/fscan
/usr/share/calc/help/fscanf
/usr/share/calc/help/fseek
/usr/share/calc/help/fsize
/usr/share/calc/help/ftell
/usr/share/calc/help/full
/usr/share/calc/help/gcd
/usr/share/calc/help/gcdrem
/usr/share/calc/help/gd
/usr/share/calc/help/getenv
/usr/share/calc/help/hash
/usr/share/calc/help/head
/usr/share/calc/help/help
/usr/share/calc/help/highbit
/usr/share/calc/help/history
/usr/share/calc/help/hmean
/usr/share/calc/help/hnrmod
/usr/share/calc/help/hypot
/usr/share/calc/help/ilog
/usr/share/calc/help/ilog10
/usr/share/calc/help/ilog2
/usr/share/calc/help/im
/usr/share/calc/help/indices
/usr/share/calc/help/inputlevel
/usr/share/calc/help/insert
/usr/share/calc/help/int
/usr/share/calc/help/interrupt
/usr/share/calc/help/intro
/usr/share/calc/help/inverse
/usr/share/calc/help/iroot
/usr/share/calc/help/isalnum
/usr/share/calc/help/isalpha
/usr/share/calc/help/isassoc
/usr/share/calc/help/isatty
/usr/share/calc/help/isblk
/usr/share/calc/help/iscntrl
/usr/share/calc/help/isconfig
/usr/share/calc/help/isdefined
/usr/share/calc/help/isdigit
/usr/share/calc/help/iserror
/usr/share/calc/help/iseven
/usr/share/calc/help/isfile
/usr/share/calc/help/isgraph
/usr/share/calc/help/ishash
/usr/share/calc/help/isident
/usr/share/calc/help/isint
/usr/share/calc/help/islist
/usr/share/calc/help/islower
/usr/share/calc/help/ismat
/usr/share/calc/help/ismult
/usr/share/calc/help/isnull
/usr/share/calc/help/isnum
/usr/share/calc/help/isobj
/usr/share/calc/help/isobjtype
/usr/share/calc/help/isodd
/usr/share/calc/help/isprime
/usr/share/calc/help/isprint
/usr/share/calc/help/isptr
/usr/share/calc/help/ispunct
/usr/share/calc/help/isqrt
/usr/share/calc/help/isrand
/usr/share/calc/help/israndom
/usr/share/calc/help/isreal
/usr/share/calc/help/isrel
/usr/share/calc/help/issimple
/usr/share/calc/help/isspace
/usr/share/calc/help/issq
/usr/share/calc/help/isstr
/usr/share/calc/help/istype
/usr/share/calc/help/isupper
/usr/share/calc/help/isxdigit
/usr/share/calc/help/jacobi
/usr/share/calc/help/join
/usr/share/calc/help/lcm
/usr/share/calc/help/lcmfact
/usr/share/calc/help/lfactor
/usr/share/calc/help/libcalc
/usr/share/calc/help/list
/usr/share/calc/help/ln
/usr/share/calc/help/log
/usr/share/calc/help/lowbit
/usr/share/calc/help/ltol
/usr/share/calc/help/makelist
/usr/share/calc/help/man
/usr/share/calc/help/mat
/usr/share/calc/help/matdim
/usr/share/calc/help/matfill
/usr/share/calc/help/matmax
/usr/share/calc/help/matmin
/usr/share/calc/help/matsum
/usr/share/calc/help/mattrace
/usr/share/calc/help/mattrans
/usr/share/calc/help/max
/usr/share/calc/help/memsize
/usr/share/calc/help/meq
/usr/share/calc/help/min
/usr/share/calc/help/minv
/usr/share/calc/help/mmin
/usr/share/calc/help/mne
/usr/share/calc/help/mod
/usr/share/calc/help/modify
/usr/share/calc/help/name
/usr/share/calc/help/near
/usr/share/calc/help/new_custom
/usr/share/calc/help/newerror
/usr/share/calc/help/nextcand
/usr/share/calc/help/nextprime
/usr/share/calc/help/norm
/usr/share/calc/help/null
/usr/share/calc/help/num
/usr/share/calc/help/obj
/usr/share/calc/help/oldvalue
/usr/share/calc/help/operator
/usr/share/calc/help/ord
/usr/share/calc/help/overview
/usr/share/calc/help/param
/usr/share/calc/help/perm
/usr/share/calc/help/pfact
/usr/share/calc/help/pi
/usr/share/calc/help/pix
/usr/share/calc/help/places
/usr/share/calc/help/pmod
/usr/share/calc/help/polar
/usr/share/calc/help/poly
/usr/share/calc/help/pop
/usr/share/calc/help/popcnt
/usr/share/calc/help/pound
/usr/share/calc/help/power
/usr/share/calc/help/prevcand
/usr/share/calc/help/prevprime
/usr/share/calc/help/printf
/usr/share/calc/help/prompt
/usr/share/calc/help/protect
/usr/share/calc/help/ptest
/usr/share/calc/help/push
/usr/share/calc/help/putenv
/usr/share/calc/help/quo
/usr/share/calc/help/quomod
/usr/share/calc/help/rand
/usr/share/calc/help/randbit
/usr/share/calc/help/random
/usr/share/calc/help/randombit
/usr/share/calc/help/randperm
/usr/share/calc/help/rcin
/usr/share/calc/help/rcmul
/usr/share/calc/help/rcout
/usr/share/calc/help/rcpow
/usr/share/calc/help/rcsq
/usr/share/calc/help/re
/usr/share/calc/help/remove
/usr/share/calc/help/resource
/usr/share/calc/help/reverse
/usr/share/calc/help/rewind
/usr/share/calc/help/rm
/usr/share/calc/help/root
/usr/share/calc/help/round
/usr/share/calc/help/rsearch
/usr/share/calc/help/runtime
/usr/share/calc/help/saveval
/usr/share/calc/help/scale
/usr/share/calc/help/scan
/usr/share/calc/help/scanf
/usr/share/calc/help/script
/usr/share/calc/help/search
/usr/share/calc/help/sec
/usr/share/calc/help/sech
/usr/share/calc/help/seed
/usr/share/calc/help/segment
/usr/share/calc/help/select
/usr/share/calc/help/sgn
/usr/share/calc/help/sha1
/usr/share/calc/help/sin
/usr/share/calc/help/sinh
/usr/share/calc/help/size
/usr/share/calc/help/sizeof
/usr/share/calc/help/sleep
/usr/share/calc/help/sort
/usr/share/calc/help/sqrt
/usr/share/calc/help/srand
/usr/share/calc/help/srandom
/usr/share/calc/help/ssq
/usr/share/calc/help/statement
/usr/share/calc/help/stoponerror
/usr/share/calc/help/str
/usr/share/calc/help/strcasecmp
/usr/share/calc/help/strcat
/usr/share/calc/help/strcmp
/usr/share/calc/help/strcpy
/usr/share/calc/help/strerror
/usr/share/calc/help/strlen
/usr/share/calc/help/strncasecmp
/usr/share/calc/help/strncmp
/usr/share/calc/help/strncpy
/usr/share/calc/help/strpos
/usr/share/calc/help/strprintf
/usr/share/calc/help/strscan
/usr/share/calc/help/strscanf
/usr/share/calc/help/strtolower
/usr/share/calc/help/strtoupper
/usr/share/calc/help/substr
/usr/share/calc/help/sum
/usr/share/calc/help/swap
/usr/share/calc/help/system
/usr/share/calc/help/systime
/usr/share/calc/help/tail
/usr/share/calc/help/tan
/usr/share/calc/help/tanh
/usr/share/calc/help/test
/usr/share/calc/help/time
/usr/share/calc/help/todo
/usr/share/calc/help/trunc
/usr/share/calc/help/type
/usr/share/calc/help/types
/usr/share/calc/help/unexpected
/usr/share/calc/help/usage
/usr/share/calc/help/usertime
/usr/share/calc/help/variable
/usr/share/calc/help/version
/usr/share/calc/help/wishlist
/usr/share/calc/help/xor
/usr/share/doc/calc
/usr/share/doc/calc/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/calc/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/calc/README.FIRST
/usr/share/doc/calc/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/calc
/usr/share/licenses/calc/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/calc/COPYING-GPL
/usr/share/man/man1/calc.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install calc on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.