Graphviz¶
Graphviz is a set of tool to deal visualize graphs. See the gallery.
Installation¶
download the installer for your operating system the download page.
On Windows
graphviz-2.38.msi
must be used, at least if you plan to use the pygraphviz windows library for python web.On Ubuntu Graphviz can be installed via:
apt-get install graphviz libgraphviz-dev pkg-config
install the program in a directory like
%SCRIBESTOOLS%\Graphviz\
add
%SCRIBESTOOLS%\Graphviz\
into the PATH environment variable.
Launching Graphviz¶
To test your installation type the following command in a new shell. It should display the version of graphviz.
dot -V
You can try the gvedit
, a very simple graphical interface. It is not really
useful though as Graphviz is mostly used by other programs.
gvedit
Documentation¶
There is a lot of documentation.