How To Install gshhg-gmt-nc4 on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install gshhg-gmt-nc4 on CentOS 7. gshhg-gmt-nc4 is Global Self-consistent Hierarchical High-resolution Geography

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gshhg-gmt-nc4 on CentOS 7.

What is gshhg-gmt-nc4

GSHHG is a high-resolution shoreline data set amalgamated from two databases Shorelines (GSHHS) and CIA World Data Bank II (WDBII). GSHHG contains vector descriptions at five different resolutions of land outlines, lakes, rivers, and political boundaries. This data for use by GMT, the Generic Mapping Tools. This package contains the crude, low, and intermediate resolution data. Install the -all, -full, or -high sub-packages to get full, high, or all of the resolution data respectively.

We can use yum or dnf to install gshhg-gmt-nc4 on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gshhg-gmt-nc4.

Install gshhg-gmt-nc4 on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install gshhg-gmt-nc4 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gshhg-gmt-nc4

Install gshhg-gmt-nc4 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 gshhg-gmt-nc4 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gshhg-gmt-nc4

How To Uninstall gshhg-gmt-nc4 on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the gshhg-gmt-nc4 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gshhg-gmt-nc4

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gshhg-gmt-nc4 on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.