How To Install root-tree-viewer on CentOS 8

root-tree-viewer is GUI to browse a ROOT tree

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install root-tree-viewer on CentOS 8.

What is root-tree-viewer

This package contains a plugin for browsing a ROOT tree in ROOT.

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

Install root-tree-viewer 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-tree-viewer using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install root-tree-viewer

Install root-tree-viewer 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-tree-viewer using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install root-tree-viewer

How To Uninstall root-tree-viewer on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the root-tree-viewer package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove root-tree-viewer

root-tree-viewer Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/include/root/HelpTextTV.h
/usr/include/root/TGTreeTable.h
/usr/include/root/TMemStatShow.h
/usr/include/root/TParallelCoord.h
/usr/include/root/TParallelCoordEditor.h
/usr/include/root/TParallelCoordRange.h
/usr/include/root/TParallelCoordVar.h
/usr/include/root/TSpider.h
/usr/include/root/TSpiderEditor.h
/usr/include/root/TTVLVContainer.h
/usr/include/root/TTVSession.h
/usr/include/root/TTreeViewer.h
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/40447d8b13c1ef449de5c20b03fbf885dcd146
/usr/lib64/root/libTreeViewer.rootmap
/usr/lib64/root/libTreeViewer.so
/usr/lib64/root/libTreeViewer.so.6.22
/usr/lib64/root/libTreeViewer.so.6.22.08
/usr/lib64/root/libTreeViewer_rdict.pcm
/usr/share/root/plugins/TVirtualTreeViewer/P010_TTreeViewer.C

References

Summary

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