How To Install SimGear on Fedora 34

SimGear is Simulation library components Simulation library components

Introduction

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

What is SimGear

SimGear is a set of open-source libraries designed to be used as building blocks for quickly assembling 3d simulations, games, and visualization applications. SimGear 2020.3.8 1.fc34 x86_64 1.7 M SimGear-2020.3.8-1.fc34.src.rpm fedora Simulation library components http GPLv2+ SimGear is a set of open-source libraries designed to be used as building blocks for quickly assembling 3d simulations, games, and visualization applications.

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

Install SimGear 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 SimGear using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install SimGear

Install SimGear 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 SimGear using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install SimGear

How To Uninstall SimGear on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove SimGear

SimGear Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e/da7ed5a85cf264aadb5db2c9def328f653c567
/usr/lib/.build-id/41
/usr/lib/.build-id/41/9971fea1dd135dd4d140d6de87f95511ed5ebe
/usr/lib/libSimGearCore.so.2020.3.8
/usr/lib/libSimGearScene.so.2020.3.8
/usr/share/doc/SimGear
/usr/share/doc/SimGear/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/SimGear/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/SimGear
/usr/share/licenses/SimGear/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/35eadc1ba24ddbb7a0653b950d31e6b1ed99c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/95
/usr/lib/.build-id/95/59589fff21794e44d5d2e44d205a1d0ebe6bfa
/usr/lib64/libSimGearCore.so.2020.3.8
/usr/lib64/libSimGearScene.so.2020.3.8
/usr/share/doc/SimGear
/usr/share/doc/SimGear/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/SimGear/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/SimGear
/usr/share/licenses/SimGear/COPYING

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Summary

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