How To Install Inventor on Fedora 34

Inventor is SGI Open Inventor (TM) SGI Open Inventor (TM)

Introduction

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

What is `Inventor`

SGI Open Inventor(TM) is an object-oriented 3D toolkit offering a comprehensive solution to interactive graphics programming problems. It presents a programming model based on a 3D scene database that dramatically simplifies graphics programming. It includes a rich set of objects such as cubes, polygons, text, materials, cameras, lights, trackballs, handle boxes, 3D viewers, and editors that speed up your programming time and extend your 3D programming capabilities. Inventor 2.1.5 73.fc33 x86_64 1.3 M Inventor-2.1.5-73.fc33.src.rpm fedora SGI Open Inventor (TM) http LGPLv2+ SGI Open Inventor(TM) is an object-oriented 3D toolkit offering a comprehensive solution to interactive graphics programming problems. It presents a programming model based on a 3D scene database that dramatically simplifies graphics programming. It includes a rich set of objects such as cubes, polygons, text, materials, cameras, lights, trackballs, handle boxes, 3D viewers, and editors that speed up your programming time and extend your 3D programming capabilities.

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

Install Inventor 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 Inventor using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install Inventor

Install Inventor 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 Inventor using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install Inventor

How To Uninstall Inventor on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove Inventor

Inventor Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/iv2toiv1
/usr/bin/ivAddVP
/usr/bin/ivcat
/usr/bin/ivdowngrade
/usr/bin/ivfix
/usr/bin/ivinfo
/usr/bin/ivnorm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/15
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/5d7cded2c5d21b9075c9d87f08d107b717bfad
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c/640a235d4cc021b97070ea4f492ac8cd460cb7
/usr/lib/.build-id/49
/usr/lib/.build-id/49/c4b0235bc4e8901349c3c48adaeb3aaaa2d5e3
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c/da07bc77be685c5d15b6524ed3a796193dcb4b
/usr/lib/.build-id/82
/usr/lib/.build-id/82/d5df7fd3775b8b3c7a668137cd18ab10249765
/usr/lib/.build-id/83
/usr/lib/.build-id/83/1f0210eff73a05c3d304602568c9f8d47e4e4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8/6dc8c1e7d285de219a9519f4041d3f2f769264
/usr/lib64/libInventor.so.0
/usr/lib64/libInventor.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/Inventor
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Courier
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Courier-Bold
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Courier-BoldOblique
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Courier-Oblique
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Helvetica
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Helvetica-Bold
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Helvetica-BoldOblique
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Helvetica-Oblique
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Times-Roman
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Utopia-Bold
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Utopia-BoldItalic
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Utopia-Italic
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Utopia-Regular
/usr/share/doc/Inventor
/usr/share/doc/Inventor/FAQ.misc
/usr/share/doc/Inventor/KNOWN.BUGS
/usr/share/doc/Inventor/README.FIRST
/usr/share/licenses/Inventor
/usr/share/licenses/Inventor/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/inventor.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/iv2toiv1.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ivcat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ivdowngrade.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ivfix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ivinfo.1.gz
/usr/bin/iv2toiv1
/usr/bin/ivAddVP
/usr/bin/ivcat
/usr/bin/ivdowngrade
/usr/bin/ivfix
/usr/bin/ivinfo
/usr/bin/ivnorm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e/30f476a0d6598cb2ca656a9b5e2d896cafe4dc
/usr/lib/.build-id/68
/usr/lib/.build-id/68/f0f285c3ca85d21d7bcf7b7ea4848577493028
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/b92494a115d0f5ead34a1b996ffa37e9aca39a
/usr/lib/.build-id/71
/usr/lib/.build-id/71/57594e36cc585b131c780d5b4535d031d9afdb
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf/958d3652a61e1b1836ac50044cc09148f7870d
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6/02a5734c04ec25ef19aea9077aa7fe28f866b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8/46b26d5969ccc614cbe90c4cb37267f5a85f43
/usr/lib/libInventor.so.0
/usr/lib/libInventor.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/Inventor
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Courier
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Courier-Bold
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Courier-BoldOblique
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Courier-Oblique
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Helvetica
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Helvetica-Bold
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Helvetica-BoldOblique
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Helvetica-Oblique
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Times-Roman
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Utopia-Bold
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Utopia-BoldItalic
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Utopia-Italic
/usr/share/Inventor/fonts/Utopia-Regular
/usr/share/doc/Inventor
/usr/share/doc/Inventor/FAQ.misc
/usr/share/doc/Inventor/KNOWN.BUGS
/usr/share/doc/Inventor/README.FIRST
/usr/share/licenses/Inventor
/usr/share/licenses/Inventor/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/inventor.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/iv2toiv1.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ivcat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ivdowngrade.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ivfix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ivinfo.1.gz

References

[Inventor website](http://oss.sgi.com/projects/inventor/ http://oss.sgi.com/projects/inventor/)

Summary

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