How To Install pg2graphviz.pl 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 chado-utils

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install chado-utils

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

What is pg2graphviz.pl 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 pg2graphviz.pl 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 pg2graphviz.pl 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 pg2graphviz.pl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install chado-utils

Install pg2graphviz.pl on CentOS 8 using yum

Because pg2graphviz.pl 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 pg2graphviz.pl package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install chado-utils

How to upgrade (update) a single package pg2graphviz.pl using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like pg2graphviz.pl in this example you should use the following command:

yum update chado-utils

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade chado-utils

How to Upgrade pg2graphviz.pl 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 chado-utils

How To remove pg2graphviz.pl from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the pg2graphviz.pl package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove chado-utils

Extra info and code examples

This package contains several tools that can be used to extract data from Chado database or prepare data before upload. It is a subset above the Chado database schema and libraries. Chado is a relational database schema that underlies many GMOD installations. It is capable of representing many of the general classes of data frequently encountered in modern biology such as sequence, sequence comparisons, phenotypes, genotypes, ontologies, publications, and phylogeny.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install pg2graphviz.pl using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the pg2graphviz.pl from CentOS 8.

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