How To Install gnuplot-minimal on CentOS 7

Introduction

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

What is gnuplot-minimal

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-minimal if you need a minimal version of graphics package for scientific data representation.

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

Install gnuplot-minimal on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install gnuplot-minimal

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

sudo dnf -y install gnuplot-minimal

How To Uninstall gnuplot-minimal on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove gnuplot-minimal

References

• gnuplot-minimal website

Summary

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