How To Install libQGLViewer-qt5 on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libQGLViewer-qt5
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is libQGLViewer-qt5
libQGLViewer is a C++ library based on Qt that eases the creation of OpenGL 3D viewers. It provides some of the typical 3D viewer functionality, such as the possibility to move the camera using the mouse, which lacks in most of the other APIs. Other features include mouse manipulated frames, interpolated key-frames, object selection, stereo display, screenshot saving and much more. It can be used by OpenGL beginners as well as to create complex applications, being fully customizable and easy to extend.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libQGLViewer-qt5
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libQGLViewer-qt5.
Install libQGLViewer-qt5 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 libQGLViewer-qt5
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libQGLViewer-qt5
Install libQGLViewer-qt5 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 libQGLViewer-qt5
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libQGLViewer-qt5
How To Uninstall libQGLViewer-qt5 on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the libQGLViewer-qt5
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libQGLViewer-qt5
libQGLViewer-qt5 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/e62136bfc0d7d33289f65d015c7b65b1ba1677
/usr/lib64/libQGLViewer-qt5.so.2.6.4
/usr/share/doc/libQGLViewer-qt5
/usr/share/doc/libQGLViewer-qt5/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/libQGLViewer-qt5/GPL_EXCEPTION
/usr/share/doc/libQGLViewer-qt5/LICENCE
/usr/share/doc/libQGLViewer-qt5/README
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libQGLViewer-qt5
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.