How To Install paraview on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install paraview
on CentOS 7.
What is paraview
ParaView is an application designed with the need to visualize large data sets in mind. The goals of the ParaView project include the following * Develop an open-source, multi-platform visualization application. * Support distributed computation models to process large data sets. * Create an open, flexible, and intuitive user interface. * Develop an extensible architecture based on open standards. ParaView runs on distributed and shared memory parallel as well as single processor systems and has been successfully tested on Windows, Linux and various Unix workstations and clusters. Under the hood, ParaView uses the Visualization Toolkit as the data processing and rendering engine and has a user interface written using a unique blend of Tcl/Tk and C++. NOTE support. Install the paraview-openmpi package to get a version compiled with openmpi. Install the paraview-mpich package to get a version compiled with mpich.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install paraview
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install paraview.
Install paraview on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install paraview
using yum
by running the following command:
Install paraview 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.
After updating yum database, We can install paraview
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall paraview on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the paraview
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install paraview
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.