How To Install qalculate on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qalculate on CentOS 8.
What is qalculate
Qalculate! is a multi-purpose desktop calculator for GNU/Linux. It is small and simple to use but with much power and versatility underneath. Features include customizable functions, units, arbitrary precision, plotting. This package provides the text-mode interface for Qalculate! The GTK and QT frontends are provided by qalculate-gtk and qalculate-kde packages resp.
We can use yum or dnf to install qalculate on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qalculate.
Install qalculate 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 qalculate using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install qalculate
Install qalculate 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 qalculate using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install qalculate
How To Uninstall qalculate on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the qalculate package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove qalculate
qalculate Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/qalc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0/73acb9cbb5955c6268cc496a701eeb62e7acc8
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qalculate on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.