How To Install assimp on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install assimp
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is assimp
Assimp, the Open Asset Import Library, is a free library to import various well-known 3D model formats into applications. Assimp aims to provide a full asset conversion pipeline for use in game engines and real-time rendering systems, but is not limited to these applications.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install assimp
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install assimp.
Install assimp on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install assimp
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install assimp
Install assimp on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install assimp
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install assimp
How To Uninstall assimp on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the assimp
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove assimp
assimp Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/assimp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f/6a28b78d48b490c2a2fc85da4e6be744a94185
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/b1046a929d60b15cb374153eeedfbb5a71aa0c
/usr/lib64/libassimp.so.5
/usr/lib64/libassimp.so.5.0.1
/usr/share/doc/assimp
/usr/share/doc/assimp/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/assimp/Readme.md
/usr/share/licenses/assimp
/usr/share/licenses/assimp/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/assimp/License.txt
/usr/share/licenses/assimp/UNLICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install assimp
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.