How To Install gnuplot on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuplot
on AlmaLinux 8.
What is gnuplot
Gnuplot is a command-line driven, interactive function plotting program especially suited for scientific data representation. Gnuplot can be used to plot functions and data points in both two and three dimensions and in many different formats. Install gnuplot if you need a graphics package for scientific data representation. This package provides a Qt based terminal version of gnuplot.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install gnuplot
on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnuplot.
Install gnuplot on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install gnuplot
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gnuplot
Install gnuplot on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install gnuplot
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gnuplot
How To Uninstall gnuplot on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the gnuplot
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gnuplot
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuplot
on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.