How To Install science-statistics 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 science-statistics

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install science-statistics

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

What is science-statistics 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 science-statistics 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 science-statistics 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 science-statistics using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install science-statistics

Install science-statistics on CentOS 8 using yum

Because science-statistics 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 science-statistics package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install science-statistics

How to upgrade (update) a single package science-statistics using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update science-statistics

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade science-statistics

How to Upgrade science-statistics 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 science-statistics

How To remove science-statistics from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the science-statistics package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove science-statistics

Extra info and code examples

This metapackage is part of the Debian Pure Blend "Debian Science" and installs packages related to statistics. This task is a general task which might be useful for any scientific work. It depends from a lot of R packages as well as from other tools which are useful to do statistics. Moreover the Science Mathematics task is suggested to optionally install all mathematics related software.

Conclusion

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

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