How To Install freeimage on CentOS 8

freeimage is Multi-format image decoder library

Introduction

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

What is freeimage

FreeImage is a library for developers who would like to support popular graphics image formats like PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF and others as needed by today’s multimedia applications.

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

Install freeimage 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 freeimage using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freeimage

Install freeimage 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 freeimage using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freeimage

How To Uninstall freeimage on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove freeimage

freeimage Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/35
/usr/lib/.build-id/35/9f4cf038bf4148c50e893e5ae4684a7503f2f1
/usr/lib64/libfreeimage-3.17.0.so
/usr/lib64/libfreeimage.so.3
/usr/share/doc/freeimage
/usr/share/doc/freeimage/Whatsnew.txt
/usr/share/licenses/freeimage
/usr/share/licenses/freeimage/license-fi.txt
/usr/share/licenses/freeimage/license-gplv2.txt
/usr/share/licenses/freeimage/license-gplv3.txt

References

Summary

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