How To Install irrlicht on Fedora 34

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Introduction

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

What is `irrlicht`

The Irrlicht Engine is an open source high performance realtime 3D engine written and usable in C++ and also available for .NET languages. It is completely cross-platform, using D3D, OpenGL and its own software renderer, and has all of the state-of-the-art features which can be found in commercial 3d engines. irrlicht 1.8.4 16.fc34 x86_64 1.3 M irrlicht-1.8.4-16.fc34.src.rpm fedora A high performance realtime 3D engine http zlib The Irrlicht Engine is an open source high performance realtime 3D engine written and usable in C++ and also available for .NET languages. It is completely cross-platform, using D3D, OpenGL and its own software renderer, and has all of the state-of-the-art features which can be found in commercial 3d engines.

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

Install irrlicht 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 irrlicht using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install irrlicht

Install irrlicht 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 irrlicht using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install irrlicht

How To Uninstall irrlicht on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove irrlicht

irrlicht Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/dc9054a49a1bb1cbc1a2e0280eb98a62474aff
/usr/lib64/libIrrlicht.so.1
/usr/lib64/libIrrlicht.so.1.8.4
/usr/share/doc/irrlicht
/usr/share/doc/irrlicht/readme.txt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/84
/usr/lib/.build-id/84/0e80d50bf9a9acd7b544fb6ad64be02e86695e
/usr/lib/libIrrlicht.so.1
/usr/lib/libIrrlicht.so.1.8.4
/usr/share/doc/irrlicht
/usr/share/doc/irrlicht/readme.txt

References

[irrlicht website](http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/ http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/)

Summary

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