Graph layouting via Graphviz

Problem:

You want to display a Graph.

Solution:

Create a simple text file describing your graph and save it with a .dot file extension:

graph {
node1 -- node2;
node2 -- node3;
node3 -- node4;
node4 -- node1;
}

Afterwards you can use a program of the graphviz package (sudo apt-get install graphviz) in order to visualize the graph. This package contains different layouting programs like dot, neato, fdp (all from the GraphViz project) etc. Simply call one of these programs in order to visualize the graph:

neato -Tsvg yourFile.dot -o outputFile.svg

Output from this command: