How To Install Field3D on CentOS 8

Field3D is Library for storing voxel data

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install Field3D on CentOS 8.

What is `Field3D`

Field3D is an open source library for storing voxel data. It provides C++ classes that handle in-memory storage and a file format based on HDF5 that allows the C++ objects to be written to and read from disk.

We can use yum or dnf to install Field3D on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install Field3D.

Install Field3D 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 Field3D using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install Field3D

Install Field3D 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 Field3D using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install Field3D

How To Uninstall Field3D on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the Field3D package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove Field3D

Field3D Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/f3dinfo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e/df93ab36f5e64e5550ee6a007a71c5c36845d6
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/6e8b054802d1324c8db73b8664287c6d40ab71
/usr/lib64/libField3D.so.1.7
/usr/lib64/libField3D.so.1.7.2
/usr/share/doc/Field3D
/usr/share/doc/Field3D/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/Field3D/README
/usr/share/licenses/Field3D
/usr/share/licenses/Field3D/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/f3dinfo.1.gz

References

Field3D website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install Field3D on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.