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