How To Install trademgen on CentOS 8

trademgen is C++ Simulated Travel Demand Generation Library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install trademgen on CentOS 8.

What is trademgen

trademgen aims at providing a clean API, and the corresponding C++ implementation, able to generate demand for travel solutions (e.g., from JFK to PEK on 25-05-2009) according to characteristics (e.g., Willingness-To-Pay, preferred airline, etc). trademgen makes an extensive use of existing open-source libraries for increased functionality, speed and accuracy. In particular the Boost (C++ Standard Extensions Install the trademgen package if you need a library of basic C++ objects for travel-related demand generation, mainly for simulation purpose.

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

Install trademgen 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 trademgen using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install trademgen

Install trademgen 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 trademgen using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install trademgen

How To Uninstall trademgen on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the trademgen package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove trademgen

trademgen Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/trademgen
/usr/bin/trademgen_extractBookingRequests
/usr/bin/trademgen_generateDemand
/usr/bin/trademgen_with_db
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/52
/usr/lib/.build-id/52/829920cc05e87033635eb918c618dfab04f013
/usr/lib/.build-id/68
/usr/lib/.build-id/68/dcc1a1de81b976f17c612fbe6941fe0be687e5
/usr/lib/.build-id/90
/usr/lib/.build-id/90/ddb32c1af5e1e455f140192c3993e51aebe394
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c/c57350ac022cd1bab8124616e3d9d6c5822e02
/usr/lib64/libtrademgen.so.1.00
/usr/lib64/libtrademgen.so.1.00.4
/usr/share/doc/trademgen
/usr/share/doc/trademgen/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/trademgen/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/trademgen/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/trademgen/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/trademgen/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/trademgen.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/trademgen_extractBookingRequests.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/trademgen_generateDemand.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/trademgen_with_db.1.gz

References

Summary

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