How To Install libEMF on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libEMF on CentOS 8.
What is libEMF
libEMF is a library for generating Enhanced Metafiles on systems which don’t natively support the ECMA-234 Graphics Device Interface (GDI). The library is intended to be used as a driver for other graphics programs such as Grace or gnuplot. Therefore, it implements a very limited subset of the GDI. libEMF is a library for generating Enhanced Metafiles on systems which don’t natively support the ECMA-234 Graphics Device Interface (GDI). The library is intended to be used as a driver for other graphics programs such as Grace or gnuplot. Therefore, it implements a very limited subset of the GDI.
We can use yum or dnf to install libEMF on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libEMF.
Install libEMF on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install libEMF using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libEMF
Install libEMF on CentOS 8 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 libEMF using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libEMF
How To Uninstall libEMF on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the libEMF package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libEMF
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libEMF on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.