How To Install admesh on Fedora 34

admesh is Diagnose and/or repair problems with STereo Lithography files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install admesh on Fedora 34.

What is admesh

ADMesh is a program for diagnosing and/or repairing commonly encountered problems with STL (STereo Lithography) data files. It can remove degenerate and unconnected facets, connect nearby facets, fill holes by adding facets, and repair facet normals. Simple transformations such as scaling, translation and rotation are also supported. ADMesh can read both ASCII and binary format STL files, while the output can be in AutoCAD DXF, Geomview OFF, STL, or VRML format.

We can use yum or dnf to install admesh on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install admesh.

Install admesh on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install admesh using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install admesh

Install admesh on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install admesh using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install admesh

How To Uninstall admesh on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove admesh

admesh Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/admesh
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/7e9155bd7474bc559771447e9f567812ee5558
/usr/share/doc/admesh
/usr/share/doc/admesh/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/admesh/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/admesh/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/admesh/ChangeLog.old
/usr/share/doc/admesh/README.md
/usr/share/doc/admesh/admesh-doc.txt
/usr/share/doc/admesh/block.stl
/usr/share/man/man1/admesh.1.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install admesh on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.