How To Install bouml on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install bouml

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install bouml

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is bouml and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install bouml on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install bouml on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install bouml using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bouml

Install bouml on CentOS 8 using yum

Because bouml is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install bouml package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bouml

How to upgrade (update) a single package bouml using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like bouml in this example you should use the following command:

yum update bouml

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade bouml

How to Upgrade bouml on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update bouml

How To remove bouml from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the bouml package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove bouml

Extra info and code examples

BOUML is a Unified Modeling Language editor for Qt. You can use it to create nearly all of UML diagrams. BOUML can generate code from those diagrams in C++, Java and IDL, and can also reverse existing code. The program supports class diagrams, sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams, object diagrams, use case diagrams, component diagrams, state diagrams, activity diagrams, component diagrams and deployment diagrams.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install bouml using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the bouml from CentOS 8.

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