How To Install gle-doc on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install gle-doc on CentOS 7. gle-doc is User documentation for GLE

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gle-doc on CentOS 7.

What is gle-doc

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 user documentation.

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

Install gle-doc on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install gle-doc

Install gle-doc 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 gle-doc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gle-doc

How To Uninstall gle-doc on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the gle-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gle-doc

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Summary

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