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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install qgis using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install qgis
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install qgis using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install qgis
How To Uninstall qgis on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the qgis package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove qgis
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qgis on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
