How To Install glfw on CentOS 8

glfw is A cross-platform multimedia library

Introduction

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

What is `glfw`

GLFW is a free, Open Source, multi-platform library for OpenGL application development that provides a powerful API for handling operating system specific tasks such as opening an OpenGL window, reading keyboard, mouse, joystick and time input, creating threads, and more.

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

Install glfw 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 glfw using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install glfw

Install glfw 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 glfw using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install glfw

How To Uninstall glfw on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove glfw

glfw Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/483a977459d97f5c7575045c48bd4b05d53e14
/usr/lib64/libglfw.so.3
/usr/lib64/libglfw.so.3.3
/usr/share/doc/glfw
/usr/share/doc/glfw/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/glfw
/usr/share/licenses/glfw/LICENSE.md

References

glfw website

Summary

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