How To Install glglobe on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glglobe
on Fedora 34.
What is glglobe
GLGlobe is an OpenGL - globe simulation for Linux. It was inspired by XGlobe or XEarth and can use the marker-files of these programs. The simulation includes day light and night time rendering, and the globe can be rotated and scaled interactively, or automatically rotated based on the current time of day
We can use yum
or dnf
to install glglobe
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install glglobe.
Install glglobe 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 glglobe
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install glglobe
Install glglobe 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 glglobe
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install glglobe
How To Uninstall glglobe on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the glglobe
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove glglobe
glglobe Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/glglobe
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/2e37e748d95b00b1ba6860e22a7a61c8a26cc2
/usr/share/applications/glglobe.desktop
/usr/share/doc/glglobe
/usr/share/doc/glglobe/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/glglobe/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/glglobe/README
/usr/share/doc/glglobe/TODO
/usr/share/glglobe
/usr/share/glglobe/depths_1440.jpg
/usr/share/glglobe/earth-markers-schaumann
/usr/share/glglobe/xglobe-markers
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/glglobe.16x16.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/glglobe.24x24.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/glglobe.48x48.png
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glglobe
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.