How To Install ansible-inventory-grapher on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ansible-inventory-grapher on CentOS 7.

What is ansible-inventory-grapher

ansible-inventory-grapher creates a dot file suitable for use by graphviz.

We can use yum or dnf to install ansible-inventory-grapher on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ansible-inventory-grapher.

Install ansible-inventory-grapher on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install ansible-inventory-grapher using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ansible-inventory-grapher

Install ansible-inventory-grapher on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install ansible-inventory-grapher using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ansible-inventory-grapher

How To Uninstall ansible-inventory-grapher on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the ansible-inventory-grapher package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ansible-inventory-grapher

References

• ansible-inventory-grapher website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ansible-inventory-grapher on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.