How To Install qgle on Fedora 34

qgle is QT frontend to GLE

Introduction

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

What is qgle

GLE (Graphics Layout Engine) is a high-quality graphics package for scientists, combining a user-friendly scripting language with a full range of facilities for producing publication-quality graphs, diagrams, posters and slides. GLE provides LaTeX quality fonts together with a flexible graphics module which allows the user to specify any feature of a graph. Complex pictures can be drawn with user-defined subroutines and simple looping structures. Current output formats include EPS, PS, PDF, JPEG, and PNG. This package contains the QT frontend.

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

Install qgle 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 qgle using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qgle

Install qgle 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 qgle using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qgle

How To Uninstall qgle on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove qgle

qgle Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/qgle
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/f621aca1726a3cd148065d677bbfdf5aa19faa
/usr/share/licenses/qgle
/usr/share/licenses/qgle/LICENSE.txt

References

Summary

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