How To Install libsquish on Fedora 34

libsquish is Open source DXT compression library Open source DXT compression library

Introduction

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

What is `libsquish`

The libSquish library compresses images with the DXT standard (also known as S3TC). This standard is mainly used by OpenGL and DirectX for the lossy compression of RGBA textures. libsquish 1.15 8.fc34 x86_64 32 k libsquish-1.15-8.fc34.src.rpm fedora Open source DXT compression library https MIT The libSquish library compresses images with the DXT standard (also known as S3TC). This standard is mainly used by OpenGL and DirectX for the lossy compression of RGBA textures.

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

Install libsquish 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 libsquish using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libsquish

Install libsquish 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 libsquish using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libsquish

How To Uninstall libsquish on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libsquish

libsquish Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f/03dca3451a540ba18c6d24c53af2353968ca41
/usr/lib/libsquish.so.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libsquish
/usr/share/doc/libsquish/ChangeLog.txt
/usr/share/licenses/libsquish
/usr/share/licenses/libsquish/LICENSE.txt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9/c550c0364351a75c446047a412ce34f66004e0
/usr/lib64/libsquish.so.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libsquish
/usr/share/doc/libsquish/ChangeLog.txt
/usr/share/licenses/libsquish
/usr/share/licenses/libsquish/LICENSE.txt

References

[libsquish website](https://sourceforge.net/projects/libsquish/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/libsquish/)

Summary

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