How To Install vtk-examples on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vtk-examples on CentOS 7.

What is vtk-examples

This package contains many well-commented examples showing how to use VTK. Examples are available in the C++, Tcl, Python and Java programming languages.

We can use yum or dnf to install vtk-examples on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vtk-examples.

Install vtk-examples on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install vtk-examples using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vtk-examples

Install vtk-examples 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 vtk-examples using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vtk-examples

How To Uninstall vtk-examples on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the vtk-examples package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove vtk-examples

References

• vtk-examples website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install vtk-examples on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.