Information about the package, plplot, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The plplot package is designed for, Library of functions for making scientific plots.
Package Name:
plplot
Summary:
Library of functions for making scientific plots
Description:
PLplot is a library of functions that are useful for making scientific plots. PLplot can be used from within compiled languages such as C, C++, FORTRAN and Java, and interactively from interpreted languages such as Octave, Python, Perl and Tcl. The PLplot library can be used to create standard x-y plots, semilog plots, log-log plots, contour plots, 3D surface plots, mesh plots, bar charts and pie charts. Multiple graphs (of the same or different sizes) may be placed on a single page with multiple lines in each graph. A variety of output file devices such as Postscript, png, jpeg, LaTeX and others, as well as interactive devices such as xwin, tk, xterm and Tektronics devices are supported. New devices can be easily added by writing a small number of device dependent routines. There are almost 2000 characters in the extended character set. This includes four different fonts, the Greek alphabet and a host of mathematical, musical, and other symbols. Some devices supports its own way of dealing with text, such as the Postscript and LaTeX drivers, or the png and jpeg drivers that uses the Freetype library.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
5.9.7
Release:
3.el6.1
Size:
747 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the plplot package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install plplot
This command will install plplot on the server.
yum remove plplot
This command will un-install plplot on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove plplot, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove plplot
This command will un-install plplot on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove plplot when using the -y flag.
yum update plplot
This command will update plplot to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove plplot, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update plplot
This command will update plplot to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove plplot when using the -y flag.
yum info plplot
This command will show you core information about the plplot package.
yum deplist plplot
This command will show you the dependencies for plplot. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update plplot
This command will check if there is an update waiting on plplot. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.