How To Install paraview on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install paraview on CentOS 7. paraview is Parallel visualization application

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.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install paraview using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install paraview

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.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install paraview using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install paraview

How To Uninstall paraview on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the paraview package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove paraview

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install paraview on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.