How To Install rootplot on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rootplot
on CentOS 7.
What is rootplot
ROOT is a powerful data analysis tool within the particle physics community, and the primary lens through which we see our data. The framework includes quite a bit of graphical capabilities, but producing high-quality graphics output was not the first priority in designing its capabilities or its interface. It becomes useful, then, to consider using an outside library focused on graphics for producing final plots. The pyROOT interface to ROOT makes it easy to have ROOT objects interact with other python modules. The goal of rootplot is to enable easy plotting of ROOT histograms using the full-featured and mature matplotlib library.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install rootplot
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rootplot.
Install rootplot on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install rootplot
using yum
by running the following command:
Install rootplot 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 rootplot
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall rootplot on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the rootplot
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rootplot
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.