How To Install GMT on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install GMT on Fedora 34.
What is GMT
GMT is an open source collection of ~60 tools for manipulating geographic and Cartesian data sets (including filtering, trend fitting, gridding, projecting, etc.) and producing Encapsulated PostScript File (EPS) illustrations ranging from simple x-y plots via contour maps to artificially illuminated surfaces and 3-D perspective views. GMT supports ~30 map projections and transforma- tions and comes with support data such as coastlines, rivers, and political boundaries. GMT is developed and maintained by Paul Wessel and Walter H. F. Smith with help from a global set of volunteers, and is supported by the National Science Foundation. NOTE removed. These functions can still be accessed via the GMT wrapper script with GMT 6.1.1 3.fc34 x86_64 2.3 M GMT-6.1.1-3.fc34.src.rpm fedora Generic Mapping Tools https LGPLv3+ GMT is an open source collection of ~60 tools for manipulating geographic and Cartesian data sets (including filtering, trend fitting, gridding, projecting, etc.) and producing Encapsulated PostScript File (EPS) illustrations ranging from simple x-y plots via contour maps to artificially illuminated surfaces and 3-D perspective views. GMT supports ~30 map projections and transforma- tions and comes with support data such as coastlines, rivers, and political boundaries. GMT is developed and maintained by Paul Wessel and Walter H. F. Smith with help from a global set of volunteers, and is supported by the National Science Foundation. NOTE removed. These functions can still be accessed via the GMT wrapper script with
We can use yum or dnf to install GMT on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install GMT.
Install GMT on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install GMT using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install GMT
Install GMT on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install GMT using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install GMT
How To Uninstall GMT on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the GMT package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove GMT
GMT Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/gmt
/usr/bin/gmt-config
/usr/bin/gmt_shell_functions.sh
/usr/bin/gmtswitch
/usr/bin/isogmt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/32
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/d35d89e541036865cdd4d7fed82feb90dc608d
/usr/lib/.build-id/73
/usr/lib/.build-id/73/a080d2cb04b9ee58997455ca1a70323b087ff0
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/4398c190aa622059a582884e58780a14ac884f
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/5cfac67d61d903cb8a3c48bb7d04da1dc3db56
/usr/lib64/gmt
/usr/lib64/gmt/plugins
/usr/lib64/gmt/plugins/supplements.so
/usr/lib64/libgmt.so.6
/usr/lib64/libgmt.so.6.1.1
/usr/lib64/libpostscriptlight.so.6
/usr/lib64/libpostscriptlight.so.6.1.1
/usr/share/doc/GMT
/usr/share/doc/GMT/AUTHORS.md
/usr/share/doc/GMT/CITATION.md
/usr/share/doc/GMT/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/GMT/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/GMT
/usr/share/licenses/GMT/COPYING.LESSERv3
/usr/share/licenses/GMT/COPYINGv3
/usr/share/licenses/GMT/LICENSE.TXT
/usr/bin/gmt
/usr/bin/gmt-config
/usr/bin/gmt_shell_functions.sh
/usr/bin/gmtswitch
/usr/bin/isogmt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/58
/usr/lib/.build-id/58/963ddb6a0f94679ecbed972c60a3c73eff180d
/usr/lib/.build-id/73
/usr/lib/.build-id/73/35a9162a571f44221142a9a25ac6c5abf7fced
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f/541d90faefc3c03017c66f2310d8b7d50f64d1
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7/75306f5708075946dd29a9476efbb4fbda4f21
/usr/lib/gmt
/usr/lib/gmt/plugins
/usr/lib/gmt/plugins/supplements.so
/usr/lib/libgmt.so.6
/usr/lib/libgmt.so.6.1.1
/usr/lib/libpostscriptlight.so.6
/usr/lib/libpostscriptlight.so.6.1.1
/usr/share/doc/GMT
/usr/share/doc/GMT/AUTHORS.md
/usr/share/doc/GMT/CITATION.md
/usr/share/doc/GMT/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/GMT/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/GMT
/usr/share/licenses/GMT/COPYING.LESSERv3
/usr/share/licenses/GMT/COPYINGv3
/usr/share/licenses/GMT/LICENSE.TXT
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install GMT on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.