How To Install mathomatic on Fedora 34

mathomatic is Small, portable symbolic math program

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mathomatic on Fedora 34.

What is mathomatic

Mathomatic is a small, portable symbolic math program that can automatically solve, simplify, differentiate, combine, and compare algebraic equations, perform polynomial and complex arithmetic, etc. It was written by George Gesslein II and has been under development since 1986.

We can use yum or dnf to install mathomatic on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mathomatic.

Install mathomatic 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 mathomatic using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mathomatic

Install mathomatic 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 mathomatic using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mathomatic

How To Uninstall mathomatic on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove mathomatic

mathomatic Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/matho
/usr/bin/mathomatic
/usr/bin/rmath
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/59
/usr/lib/.build-id/59/5875f6f2300a7be4fd87370aedf620771bee06
/usr/share/applications/mathomatic.desktop
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/changes.txt
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/doc
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/doc/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/doc/am.html
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/doc/doc.css
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/doc/favicon.ico
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/doc/fdl-1.3-standalone.html
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/doc/gnu-fdl.png
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/doc/greenfade.png
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/doc/index.html
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/doc/led_circle_green.png
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/doc/manual.html
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/doc/matho-mult.1.html
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/doc/matho-pascal.1.html
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/doc/matho-primes.1.html
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/doc/matho-sum.1.html
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/doc/matho-sumsq.1.html
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/doc/mathomatic.1.html
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/doc/mathomatic16x16.png
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/doc/open_book_nae_02.png
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/doc/primorial.1.html
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/doc/quickrefcard.html
/usr/share/doc/mathomatic/doc/rmath.1.html
/usr/share/licenses/mathomatic
/usr/share/licenses/mathomatic/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/matho.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mathomatic.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rmath.1.gz
/usr/share/mathomatic
/usr/share/mathomatic/m4
/usr/share/mathomatic/m4/degrees.m4
/usr/share/mathomatic/m4/functions.m4
/usr/share/mathomatic/m4/gradians.m4
/usr/share/pixmaps/mathomatic.png

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mathomatic on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.