How To Install emacs-gnuplot on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-gnuplot on CentOS 7. emacs-gnuplot is Emacs bindings for the gnuplot main application

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-gnuplot on CentOS 7.

What is emacs-gnuplot

The gnuplot-emacs package contains the emacs related .elc files so that gnuplot nicely interacts and integrates into emacs.

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

Install emacs-gnuplot on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install emacs-gnuplot using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install emacs-gnuplot

Install emacs-gnuplot 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 emacs-gnuplot using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install emacs-gnuplot

How To Uninstall emacs-gnuplot on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the emacs-gnuplot package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove emacs-gnuplot

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-gnuplot on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.