How To Install gnome-calculator on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-calculator on CentOS 7.

What is gnome-calculator

gnome-calculator is a powerful graphical calculator with financial, logical and scientific modes. It uses a multiple precision package to do its arithmetic to give a high degree of accuracy.

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

Install gnome-calculator on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install gnome-calculator

Install gnome-calculator 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 gnome-calculator using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gnome-calculator

How To Uninstall gnome-calculator on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the gnome-calculator package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gnome-calculator

References

• gnome-calculator website

Summary

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