How To Install paraview on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install paraview on CentOS 8.
What is paraview
ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application. ParaView users can quickly build visualizations to analyze their data using qualitative and quantitative techniques. The data exploration can be done interactively in 3D or programmatically using ParaView’s batch processing capabilities. ParaView was developed to analyze extremely large datasets using distributed memory computing resources. It can be run on supercomputers to analyze datasets of petascale size as well as on laptops for smaller data. NOTE 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 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install paraview.
Install paraview on CentOS 8 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 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 paraview using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install paraview
How To Uninstall paraview on CentOS 8
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 8 using yum and dnf.