How To Install libQGLViewer on Fedora 34

libQGLViewer is Qt based OpenGL generic 3D viewer library Qt based OpenGL generic 3D viewer library

Introduction

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

What is `libQGLViewer`

libQGLViewer is a C++ library based on Qt that eases the creation of OpenGL 3D viewers. It provides some of the typical 3D viewer functionality, such as the possibility to move the camera using the mouse, which lacks in most of the other APIs. Other features include mouse manipulated frames, interpolated key-frames, object selection, stereo display, screenshot saving and much more. It can be used by OpenGL beginners as well as to create complex applications, being fully customizable and easy to extend. libQGLViewer 2.6.4 6.fc34 x86_64 249 k libQGLViewer-2.6.4-6.fc34.src.rpm fedora Qt based OpenGL generic 3D viewer library http GPLv2 with exceptions or GPLv3 with exceptions libQGLViewer is a C++ library based on Qt that eases the creation of OpenGL 3D viewers. It provides some of the typical 3D viewer functionality, such as the possibility to move the camera using the mouse, which lacks in most of the other APIs. Other features include mouse manipulated frames, interpolated key-frames, object selection, stereo display, screenshot saving and much more. It can be used by OpenGL beginners as well as to create complex applications, being fully customizable and easy to extend.

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

Install libQGLViewer 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 libQGLViewer using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libQGLViewer

Install libQGLViewer 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 libQGLViewer using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libQGLViewer

How To Uninstall libQGLViewer on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libQGLViewer

libQGLViewer Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/08
/usr/lib/.build-id/08/1a9dc96aa33094b7019e066d6b05db6ef2dad6
/usr/lib64/libQGLViewer-qt4.so.2.6.4
/usr/share/doc/libQGLViewer
/usr/share/doc/libQGLViewer/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/libQGLViewer/GPL_EXCEPTION
/usr/share/doc/libQGLViewer/LICENCE
/usr/share/doc/libQGLViewer/README
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/c2ca08773a1ac401f78ed57e1d0bf3fb70e80c
/usr/lib/libQGLViewer-qt4.so.2.6.4
/usr/share/doc/libQGLViewer
/usr/share/doc/libQGLViewer/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/libQGLViewer/GPL_EXCEPTION
/usr/share/doc/libQGLViewer/LICENCE
/usr/share/doc/libQGLViewer/README

References

[libQGLViewer website](http://www.libqglviewer.com/index.html http://www.libqglviewer.com/index.html)

Summary

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