How To Install kf5-kplotting on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install kf5-kplotting on Rocky Linux 8. kf5-kplotting is KDE Frameworks 5 Tier 1 addon for plotting

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kf5-kplotting on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `kf5-kplotting`

KPlotting provides classes to do plotting.

We can use yum or dnf to install kf5-kplotting on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kf5-kplotting.

Install kf5-kplotting 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 kf5-kplotting using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install kf5-kplotting

Install kf5-kplotting 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 kf5-kplotting using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install kf5-kplotting

How To Uninstall kf5-kplotting on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the kf5-kplotting package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove kf5-kplotting

kf5-kplotting Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c/2b1a4029c41bfd6e00b96e1c8e425a8d3ca314
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b/3dee39ccf496d93e1d3fa436bb086463ab184c
/usr/lib64/libKF5Plotting.so.5
/usr/lib64/libKF5Plotting.so.5.68.0
/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/designer/kplotting5widgets.so
/usr/share/doc/kf5-kplotting
/usr/share/doc/kf5-kplotting/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/kf5-kplotting
/usr/share/licenses/kf5-kplotting/COPYING.LIB

References

kf5-kplotting website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kf5-kplotting on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.