How To Install gnuplot-common on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuplot-common on Rocky Linux 8. gnuplot-common is The common gnuplot parts

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuplot-common on Rocky Linux 8.

What is gnuplot-common

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. This subpackage contains common parts needed for all versions of gnuplot.

We can use yum or dnf to install gnuplot-common on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnuplot-common.

Install gnuplot-common on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install gnuplot-common

Install gnuplot-common on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install gnuplot-common

How To Uninstall gnuplot-common on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove gnuplot-common

gnuplot-common Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd/29248d4839d99039ee28a75a587cee5c05bd90
/usr/libexec/gnuplot
/usr/libexec/gnuplot/5.2
/usr/libexec/gnuplot/5.2/gnuplot_x11
/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Gnuplot
/usr/share/doc/gnuplot-common
/usr/share/doc/gnuplot-common/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/gnuplot-common/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gnuplot-common/Copyright
/usr/share/doc/gnuplot-common/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gnuplot-common/README
/usr/share/gnuplot
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/8859-1.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/8859-15.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/8859-2.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/8859-9.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/aglfn.txt
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/cp1250.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/cp1251.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/cp1252.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/cp437.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/cp850.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/cp852.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/koi8r.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/koi8u.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/prologue.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/PostScript/utf-8.ps
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/colors_default.gp
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/colors_mono.gp
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/colors_podo.gp
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/gnuplot.gih
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/gnuplotrc
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/README
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/canvasmath.js
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/canvastext.js
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/gnuplot_common.js
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/gnuplot_dashedlines.js
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/gnuplot_mouse.css
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/gnuplot_mouse.js
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/gnuplot_svg.js
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/grid.png
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/help.png
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/nextzoom.png
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/previouszoom.png
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/return.png
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/js/textzoom.png
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/lua
/usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/lua/gnuplot-tikz.lua
/usr/share/info/gnuplot.info.gz
/usr/share/man/ja/man1/gnuplot-ja.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gnuplot-qt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gnuplot.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuplot-common on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.