How To Install ilmbase on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install ilmbase on Rocky Linux 8. ilmbase is Abstraction/convenience libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ilmbase on Rocky Linux 8.

What is ilmbase

Half is a class that encapsulates the ilm 16-bit floating-point format. IlmThread is a thread abstraction library for use with OpenEXR and other software packages. Imath implements 2D and 3D vectors, 3x3 and 4x4 matrices, quaternions and other useful 2D and 3D math functions. Iex is an exception-handling library.

We can use yum or dnf to install ilmbase on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ilmbase.

Install ilmbase 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 ilmbase using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ilmbase

Install ilmbase 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 ilmbase using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ilmbase

How To Uninstall ilmbase on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the ilmbase package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ilmbase

ilmbase Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/09
/usr/lib/.build-id/09/cc792fd35cfd27e008bca2179304d190856518
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/7b5be88a1c0310e46c8972968122e2f3c59b9d
/usr/lib/.build-id/46
/usr/lib/.build-id/46/2ba3f79f7a58599a05b857fea69eb32d98650a
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/239723dee59aa47facbd14f9b340bca2218376
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd/410cdc4ce37315e4081057d657561fc6f99f56
/usr/lib64/libHalf.so.12
/usr/lib64/libHalf.so.12.0.0
/usr/lib64/libIex-2_2.so.12
/usr/lib64/libIex-2_2.so.12.0.0
/usr/lib64/libIexMath-2_2.so.12
/usr/lib64/libIexMath-2_2.so.12.0.0
/usr/lib64/libIlmThread-2_2.so.12
/usr/lib64/libIlmThread-2_2.so.12.0.0
/usr/lib64/libImath-2_2.so.12
/usr/lib64/libImath-2_2.so.12.0.0
/usr/share/doc/ilmbase
/usr/share/doc/ilmbase/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ilmbase/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ilmbase/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/ilmbase/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ilmbase/README
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/de62d33e81520c14791cb1972824903d7d5024
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/5c56c992f3f0aeba35d729fa27e4851c07ec1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/f9a80ad8581998f35393eb58b47b60cfc4cdd7
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b/c4f53a80d82dcb63e22f6f57d9bb7fb9a1f040
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8/96798fc842a865dbd622d913de33a301d17791
/usr/lib/libHalf.so.12
/usr/lib/libHalf.so.12.0.0
/usr/lib/libIex-2_2.so.12
/usr/lib/libIex-2_2.so.12.0.0
/usr/lib/libIexMath-2_2.so.12
/usr/lib/libIexMath-2_2.so.12.0.0
/usr/lib/libIlmThread-2_2.so.12
/usr/lib/libIlmThread-2_2.so.12.0.0
/usr/lib/libImath-2_2.so.12
/usr/lib/libImath-2_2.so.12.0.0
/usr/share/doc/ilmbase
/usr/share/doc/ilmbase/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ilmbase/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ilmbase/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/ilmbase/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ilmbase/README

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ilmbase on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.