How To Install assimp on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install assimp on CentOS 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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install assimp.
Install assimp on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install assimp using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install assimp
Install assimp on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
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 CentOS 8
To uninstall only the assimp package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove assimp
assimp Package Contents on CentOS 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 CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.