How To Install qgis on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qgis
on CentOS 7.
What is qgis
Geographic Information System (GIS) manages, analyzes, and displays databases of geographic information. QGIS supports shape file viewing and editing, spatial data storage with PostgreSQL/PostGIS, projection on-the-fly, map composition, and a number of other features via a plugin interface. QGIS also supports display of various geo-referenced raster and Digital Elevation Model (DEM) formats including GeoTIFF, Arc/Info ASCII Grid, and USGS ASCII DEM.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install qgis
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qgis.
Install qgis on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install qgis
using yum
by running the following command:
Install qgis 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 qgis
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall qgis on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the qgis
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qgis
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.