Gnuplot
is a command-line interface (CLI) program that can be used to
create two and three-dimensional plots on a variety of operating systems
including
Linux, OS
X/macOS,
Unix, and Microsoft Windows systems. If you use
CentOS Linux,
you can install it with the
yum package management utility with yum install
gnuplot
. The information shown below is for the gnuplot 4.6.2 package
on a CentOS system.
$ rpm -qi gnuplot Name : gnuplot Version : 4.6.2 Release : 3.el7 Architecture: x86_64 Install Date: Fri 23 Feb 2018 09:30:00 PM EST Group : Applications/Engineering Size : 1551543 License : gnuplot and MIT Signature : RSA/SHA256, Thu 03 Jul 2014 09:41:15 PM EDT, Key ID 24c6a8a7f4a80eb5 Source RPM : gnuplot-4.6.2-3.el7.src.rpm Build Date : Tue 10 Jun 2014 12:07:58 AM EDT Build Host : worker1.bsys.centos.org Relocations : (not relocatable) Packager : CentOS BuildSystem <http://bugs.centos.org> Vendor : CentOS URL : http://www.gnuplot.info/ Summary : A program for plotting mathematical expressions and data Description : Gnuplot is a command-line driven, interactive function plotting program especially suited for scientific data representation. Gnuplot can be used to plot functions and data points in both two and three dimensions and in many different formats. Install gnuplot if you need a graphics package for scientific data representation. $
Once you've installed the software on a Linux system, you can start
the program by typing gnuplot
and hitting Enter. You
will get a gnuplot prompt where you can type commands, e.g., help
for information on using the program. You can terminate the program by typing
exit
at the prompt.
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