How To Install root-hist-draw on CentOS 8

root-hist-draw is Histogram drawing (ROOT 7)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install root-hist-draw on CentOS 8.

What is `root-hist-draw`

This package contains an histogram drawing extension for ROOT 7.

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

Install root-hist-draw 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 root-hist-draw using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install root-hist-draw

Install root-hist-draw 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 root-hist-draw using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install root-hist-draw

How To Uninstall root-hist-draw on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove root-hist-draw

root-hist-draw Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/include/root/ROOT/RHistDrawable.hxx
/usr/include/root/ROOT/RHistStatBox.hxx
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/09/f1e8130f761e0c30602eac42e777bdaf45a786
/usr/lib64/root/libROOTHistDraw.rootmap
/usr/lib64/root/libROOTHistDraw.so
/usr/lib64/root/libROOTHistDraw.so.6.22
/usr/lib64/root/libROOTHistDraw.so.6.22.08
/usr/lib64/root/libROOTHistDraw_rdict.pcm

References

root-hist-draw website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install root-hist-draw on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.