How To Install glx-utils on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glx-utils on CentOS 8.
What is glx-utils
The glx-utils package provides the glxinfo and glxgears utilities.
We can use yum or dnf to install glx-utils on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install glx-utils.
Install glx-utils 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 glx-utils using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install glx-utils
Install glx-utils 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 glx-utils using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install glx-utils
How To Uninstall glx-utils on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the glx-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove glx-utils
glx-utils Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/glxgears
/usr/bin/glxinfo
/usr/bin/glxinfo64
/usr/bin/xdriinfo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a/5a2143dd817360d2edab848d226c1d9c70175a.1
/usr/lib/.build-id/37/f2f14b98a89177696071e7ab873d15c5f5c5e2.1
/usr/lib/.build-id/37/f2f14b98a89177696071e7ab873d15c5f5c5e2.2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/f4cf0b4027872d5eea2d5b75d1b88112f3540b
/usr/share/man/man1/xdriinfo.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glx-utils on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.