How To Install bullet on CentOS 8

bullet is 3D Collision Detection and Rigid Body Dynamics Library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bullet on CentOS 8.

What is bullet

Bullet is a 3D Collision Detection and Rigid Body Dynamics Library for games and animation.

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

Install bullet 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 bullet using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bullet

Install bullet 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 bullet using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bullet

How To Uninstall bullet on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove bullet

bullet Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c/96898b449ddf78ebb3bba1d5feb26610fb2e55
/usr/lib/.build-id/30
/usr/lib/.build-id/30/2c87fd529a8304662a037990d193cc2405ef66
/usr/lib/.build-id/35
/usr/lib/.build-id/35/36163ad487a7d28c89d5cbd37315f5f734220b
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f/af804a21890feb2af2a3e3711286f26e083704
/usr/lib/.build-id/59
/usr/lib/.build-id/59/34936bfe4e75351ca696a66c69cc66fb50d2a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/68
/usr/lib/.build-id/68/c4d305dc1ba5106c75b88f7d7ae72a2e36f884
/usr/lib/.build-id/76
/usr/lib/.build-id/76/1a97923888e9c9fceac65a154350ef9affbe61
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad/4683c8887f3ac8086df9177883f75e8619d431
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6/a5a0d7237395edf4a3781f00ca329a76f870d6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3/a7cd10317b45bc08a3909c303b21bcae11097c
/usr/lib64/libBullet3Collision.so.2.87
/usr/lib64/libBullet3Common.so.2.87
/usr/lib64/libBullet3Dynamics.so.2.87
/usr/lib64/libBullet3Geometry.so.2.87
/usr/lib64/libBullet3OpenCL_clew.so.2.87
/usr/lib64/libBulletCollision.so.2.87
/usr/lib64/libBulletDynamics.so.2.87
/usr/lib64/libBulletInverseDynamics.so.2.87
/usr/lib64/libBulletSoftBody.so.2.87
/usr/lib64/libLinearMath.so.2.87
/usr/share/doc/bullet
/usr/share/doc/bullet/AUTHORS.txt
/usr/share/doc/bullet/README.md
/usr/share/doc/bullet/VERSION
/usr/share/licenses/bullet
/usr/share/licenses/bullet/LICENSE.txt

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bullet on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.