How To Install grass on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grass on CentOS 7.
What is grass
GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a Geographic Information System (GIS) used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization. GRASS is currently used in academic and commercial settings around the world, as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies.
We can use yum or dnf to install grass on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install grass.
Install grass on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install grass using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install grass
Install grass 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 grass using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install grass
How To Uninstall grass on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the grass package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove grass
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grass on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.