How To Install python3-matplotlib on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-matplotlib
on AlmaLinux 8.
What is python3-matplotlib
Matplotlib is a python 2D plotting library which produces publication quality figures in a variety of hardcopy formats and interactive environments across platforms. matplotlib can be used in python scripts, the python and ipython shell, web application servers, and six graphical user interface toolkits. Matplotlib tries to make easy things easy and hard things possible. You can generate plots, histograms, power spectra, bar charts, errorcharts, scatterplots, etc, with just a few lines of code.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install python3-matplotlib
on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python3-matplotlib.
Install python3-matplotlib on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install python3-matplotlib
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install python3-matplotlib
Install python3-matplotlib on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install python3-matplotlib
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install python3-matplotlib
How To Uninstall python3-matplotlib on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the python3-matplotlib
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove python3-matplotlib
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-matplotlib
on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.