How To Install gnuplot-common on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuplot-common on CentOS 8.
What is gnuplot-common
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. This subpackage contains common parts needed for all versions of gnuplot.
We can use yum or dnf to install gnuplot-common on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnuplot-common.
Install gnuplot-common 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 gnuplot-common using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gnuplot-common
Install gnuplot-common 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 gnuplot-common using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gnuplot-common
How To Uninstall gnuplot-common on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the gnuplot-common package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gnuplot-common
gnuplot-common Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b/d133b1f3591b807f4198962e17cfb327f9477c
/usr/libexec/gnuplot
/usr/libexec/gnuplot/5.2
/usr/libexec/gnuplot/5.2/gnuplot_x11
/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Gnuplot
/usr/share/doc/gnuplot-common
/usr/share/doc/gnuplot-common/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/gnuplot-common/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gnuplot-common/Copyright
/usr/share/doc/gnuplot-common/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gnuplot-common/README
/usr/share/gnuplot
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/8859-1.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/8859-15.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/8859-2.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/8859-9.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/aglfn.txt
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/cp1250.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/cp1251.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/cp1252.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/cp437.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/cp850.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/cp852.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/koi8r.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/koi8u.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/prologue.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/utf-8.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/colors_default.gp
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/colors_mono.gp
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/colors_podo.gp
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/gnuplot.gih
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/gnuplotrc
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/README
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/canvasmath.js
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/canvastext.js
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/gnuplot_common.js
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/gnuplot_dashedlines.js
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/gnuplot_mouse.css
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/gnuplot_mouse.js
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/gnuplot_svg.js
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/grid.png
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/help.png
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/nextzoom.png
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/previouszoom.png
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/return.png
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/textzoom.png
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/lua
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/lua/gnuplot-tikz.lua
/usr/share/info/gnuplot.info.gz
/usr/share/man/ja/man1/gnuplot-ja.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gnuplot-qt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gnuplot.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuplot-common on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.