How To Install glew.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install glew.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. glew.x86_64 is The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install glew.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `glew.x86_64`

The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library (GLEW) is a cross-platform C/C++ extension loading library. GLEW provides efficient run-time mechanisms for determining which OpenGL extensions are supported on the target platform. OpenGL core and extension functionality is exposed in a single header file. GLEW is available for a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Irix, and Solaris. This package contains the demo GLEW utilities. The libraries themselves are in libGLEW and libGLEWmx.

We can use yum to install glew.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install glew.x86_64.

Install glew.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install glew.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install glew.x86_64

How To Uninstall glew.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the glew.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove glew.x86_64

glew.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/glewinfo
/usr/bin/visualinfo
/usr/share/doc/glew-1.10.0
/usr/share/doc/glew-1.10.0/LICENSE.txt

References

glew.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install glew.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.