Install RAPTOR Avalonia on CentOS

In this tutorial, you will install RAPTOR Avalonia on the CentOS Linux operating system. The Avalonia edition is the multi-platform edition of the Raptor flowchart tool. It is a free, open-source, cross-platform .NET framework.

Raptor Avalonia is a cross-platform programming environment tool that allows users to create flowcharts that can be executed as programs. It’s based on the RAPTOR flowchart interpreter to teach programming using visual flowcharts. Avalonia can run on different operating systems like Windows, macOS, and Linux.

CentOS is an enterprise-class Linux operating system. CentOS operating system is a RedHat Enterprise Linux family ( RHEL) based Linux distribution.

Install RAPTOR Avalonia

Open a web browser and navigate to the official RAPTOR website.

• https://raptor.martincarlisle.com/

Download the RAPTOR Avalonia archive file for the Linux operating system.

Locate the installer and extract the contents of the archive file. To do this, we can use the tar command on the command line.

Install .NET Runtime

RAPTOR Avalonia edition requires .NET core runtime. The steps to install the runtime on CentOS Linux are:

• https://www.testingdocs.com/install-net-runtime-on-centos-linux/

Run the tool

You can run the RAPTOR tool on the CentOS machine.

Open Terminal prompt. Change directory to raptor_avalonia

We can run the RAPTOR .dll file. Issue the run command.

$ dotnet raptor.dll

That’s it.