How To Install scidavis on Fedora 34

scidavis is Application for Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization

Introduction

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

What is scidavis

SciDAVis is a free interactive application aimed at data analysis and publication-quality plotting. It combines a shallow learning curve and an intuitive, easy-to-use graphical user interface with powerful features such as scriptability and extensibility.

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

Install scidavis 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 scidavis using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install scidavis

Install scidavis 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 scidavis using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install scidavis

How To Uninstall scidavis on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove scidavis

scidavis Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/scidavis
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/a008ea88cde483d9b91295784b42a07392b667
/usr/lib/.build-id/24
/usr/lib/.build-id/24/f2a506ae1b1ca4364b9096e277c79cd7f4bebd
/usr/lib/.build-id/34
/usr/lib/.build-id/34/42ccd353084bd7fb40d6557165eda71c827d4b
/usr/lib/.build-id/57
/usr/lib/.build-id/57/6536de1b6f3e647a6c423e38ed1c3491aa9c62
/usr/lib/.build-id/af
/usr/lib/.build-id/af/e8b34d58ef25c222389353a4a0420c38db138f
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb/14b2341da22cb74b7626469aceddf6a8be9ead
/usr/lib64/scidavis
/usr/lib64/scidavis/plugins
/usr/lib64/scidavis/plugins/libexp_saturation.so
/usr/lib64/scidavis/plugins/libexplin.so
/usr/lib64/scidavis/plugins/libfitRational0.so
/usr/lib64/scidavis/plugins/libfitRational1.so
/usr/lib64/scidavis/plugins/libplanck_wavelength.so
/usr/share/appdata/scidavis.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/scidavis.desktop
/usr/share/doc/scidavis
/usr/share/doc/scidavis/ChangeLog.md
/usr/share/doc/scidavis/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/scidavis.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/scidavis.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/scidavis.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/scidavis.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/scidavis.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/scidavis.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/scidavis.svg
/usr/share/icons/locolor/16x16/apps/scidavis.png
/usr/share/icons/locolor/22x22/apps/scidavis.png
/usr/share/icons/locolor/32x32/apps/scidavis.png
/usr/share/licenses/scidavis
/usr/share/licenses/scidavis/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/scidavis/gpl.txt
/usr/share/licenses/scidavis/license.rtf
/usr/share/man/man1/scidavis.1.gz
/usr/share/mime/packages/scidavis.xml
/usr/share/scidavis
/usr/share/scidavis/translations
/usr/share/scidavis/translations/scidavis_cs-alt.qm
/usr/share/scidavis/translations/scidavis_cs.qm
/usr/share/scidavis/translations/scidavis_de.qm
/usr/share/scidavis/translations/scidavis_es.qm
/usr/share/scidavis/translations/scidavis_fr.qm
/usr/share/scidavis/translations/scidavis_ja.qm
/usr/share/scidavis/translations/scidavis_pl.qm
/usr/share/scidavis/translations/scidavis_pt-br.qm
/usr/share/scidavis/translations/scidavis_ru.qm
/usr/share/scidavis/translations/scidavis_sv.qm
/usr/share/scidavis/translations/scidavis_zh-cn.qm
/usr/share/scidavis/translations/scidavis_zh-tw.qm
/usr/bin/scidavis
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/f06d88e3c26a8f8cc68e71a7f7d097f0c629c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/34
/usr/lib/.build-id/34/682cd2281a18101ceed57cd6880323e4887ec5
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b/a5ad76cc18211a0214c9abca6fe14e5f187be1
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/f7eafc66968ee1dc1a141fff1705acbe5942a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/1b3f3616d86b0db9d6eac496b6e4732a73438f
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5/38473d752211ef3ad3cd128e208ec703fbf340
/usr/lib64/scidavis
/usr/lib64/scidavis/plugins
/usr/lib64/scidavis/plugins/libexp_saturation.so
/usr/lib64/scidavis/plugins/libexplin.so
/usr/lib64/scidavis/plugins/libfitRational0.so
/usr/lib64/scidavis/plugins/libfitRational1.so
/usr/lib64/scidavis/plugins/libplanck_wavelength.so
/usr/share/appdata/scidavis.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/scidavis.desktop
/usr/share/doc/scidavis
/usr/share/doc/scidavis/ChangeLog.md
/usr/share/doc/scidavis/manual
/usr/share/doc/scidavis/manual/index.html
/usr/share/doc/scidavis/scidavis-logo.png
/usr/share/doc/scidavis/scidavis.css
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/scidavis.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/scidavis.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/scidavis.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/scidavis.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/scidavis.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/scidavis.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/scidavis.svg
/usr/share/icons/locolor/16x16/apps/scidavis.png
/usr/share/icons/locolor/22x22/apps/scidavis.png
/usr/share/icons/locolor/32x32/apps/scidavis.png
/usr/share/licenses/scidavis
/usr/share/licenses/scidavis/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/scidavis/gpl.txt
/usr/share/licenses/scidavis/license.rtf
/usr/share/man/man1/scidavis.1.gz
/usr/share/mime/packages/scidavis.xml
/usr/share/scidavis
/usr/share/scidavis/translations
/usr/share/scidavis/translations/scidavis_cs-alt.qm
/usr/share/scidavis/translations/scidavis_cs.qm
/usr/share/scidavis/translations/scidavis_de.qm
/usr/share/scidavis/translations/scidavis_es.qm
/usr/share/scidavis/translations/scidavis_fr.qm
/usr/share/scidavis/translations/scidavis_ja.qm
/usr/share/scidavis/translations/scidavis_pl.qm
/usr/share/scidavis/translations/scidavis_pt-br.qm
/usr/share/scidavis/translations/scidavis_ru.qm
/usr/share/scidavis/translations/scidavis_sv.qm
/usr/share/scidavis/translations/scidavis_zh-cn.qm
/usr/share/scidavis/translations/scidavis_zh-tw.qm

References

Summary

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