How To Install glew on Fedora 34

glew is The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library

Introduction

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

What is `glew`

The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library (GLEW) is a cross-platform C/C++ extension loading library. GLEW provides efficient run-time mechanisms for determining which OpenGL extensions are supported on the target platform. OpenGL core and extension functionality is exposed in a single header file. GLEW is available for a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Irix, and Solaris. This package contains the demo GLEW utilities. The libraries themselves are in libGLEW.

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

Install glew 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 glew using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install glew

Install glew 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 glew using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install glew

How To Uninstall glew on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove glew

glew Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/glewinfo
/usr/bin/visualinfo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/98
/usr/lib/.build-id/98/9d5631d5d0384102617a0d3295059179ff986f
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8/b5d51afee90180288e0093edf50060fca34ed5
/usr/share/licenses/glew
/usr/share/licenses/glew/LICENSE.txt

References

glew website

Summary

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