How To Install gtengine on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gtengine on CentOS 8.
What is gtengine
A library of source code for computing in the fields of mathematics, graphics, image analysis, and physics. The engine is written in C++ 11 and, as such, has portable access to standard constructs for multithreading programming on cores. The engine also supports high-performance computing using general purpose GPU programming (GPGPU). SIMD code is also available using Intel Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE). GTEngine requires OpenGL 4.5.0 (or later).
We can use yum or dnf to install gtengine on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gtengine.
Install gtengine 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 gtengine using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gtengine
Install gtengine 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 gtengine using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gtengine
How To Uninstall gtengine on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the gtengine package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gtengine
gtengine Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/89a9fa44dd4f3b3e0323e7b882e659ca9f39f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c/b9c5d258fc1573f8c12db93c5e776c377f4d9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/81280a71670e313169030b854dabbe050cae6e
/usr/lib64/libgtapplications.so.5
/usr/lib64/libgtapplications.so.5.0
/usr/lib64/libgtgraphics.so.5
/usr/lib64/libgtgraphics.so.5.0
/usr/lib64/libgtmathematicsgpu.so.5
/usr/lib64/libgtmathematicsgpu.so.5.0
/usr/share/licenses/gtengine
/usr/share/licenses/gtengine/License
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gtengine on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
