How To Install dcw-gmt on CentOS 8

dcw-gmt is Digital Chart of the World (DCW) for GMT

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dcw-gmt on CentOS 8.

What is dcw-gmt

DCW-GMT is an enhancement to the original 1 the world available from the Princeton University Digital Map and Geospatial Information Center and from GeoCommunity at http should install GMT, the Generic Mapping Tools.

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

Install dcw-gmt 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 dcw-gmt using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dcw-gmt

Install dcw-gmt 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 dcw-gmt using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dcw-gmt

How To Uninstall dcw-gmt on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the dcw-gmt package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove dcw-gmt

dcw-gmt Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/dcw-gmt
/usr/share/dcw-gmt/dcw-countries.txt
/usr/share/dcw-gmt/dcw-gmt.nc
/usr/share/dcw-gmt/dcw-states.txt
/usr/share/doc/dcw-gmt
/usr/share/doc/dcw-gmt/README.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/dcw-gmt
/usr/share/licenses/dcw-gmt/COPYING.LESSERv3
/usr/share/licenses/dcw-gmt/COPYINGv3
/usr/share/licenses/dcw-gmt/LICENSE.TXT

References

Summary

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