How To Install YafaRay on Fedora 34

YafaRay is A free open-source ray-tracing render engine A free open-source ray-tracing render engine

Introduction

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

What is `YafaRay`

YafaRay is a free open-source ray-tracing render engine. Ray-tracing is a rendering technique for generating realistic images by tracing the path of light through a 3D scene. A render engine consists of a “faceless” computer program that interacts with a host 3D application to provide very specific ray-tracing capabilities “on demand”. Blender 3D is the host application of YafaRay. YafaRay 3.5.1 9.fc34 x86_64 215 k YafaRay-3.5.1-9.fc34.src.rpm updates A free open-source ray-tracing render engine https LGPLv2+ YafaRay is a free open-source ray-tracing render engine. Ray-tracing is a rendering technique for generating realistic images by tracing the path of light through a 3D scene. A render engine consists of a “faceless” computer program that interacts with a host 3D application to provide very specific ray-tracing capabilities “on demand”. Blender 3D is the host application of YafaRay.

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

Install YafaRay 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 YafaRay using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install YafaRay

Install YafaRay 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 YafaRay using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install YafaRay

How To Uninstall YafaRay on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove YafaRay

YafaRay Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/yafaray-xml
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/32
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/e99257d1b2ddc524dbd3ed5056c1849e6ffde6
/usr/share/doc/YafaRay
/usr/share/doc/YafaRay/AUTHORS.md
/usr/share/doc/YafaRay/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/YafaRay/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/YafaRay
/usr/share/licenses/YafaRay/LICENSES
/usr/share/yafaray/tests
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01 - expected render result.png
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01.xml
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01_tex.exr
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01_tex.hdr
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01_tex.jpg
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01_tex.png
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01_tex.tga
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01_tex.tif
/usr/bin/yafaray-xml
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/97
/usr/lib/.build-id/97/17d7eb85dc8c544f8c1a696de1829d47e475cb
/usr/share/doc/YafaRay
/usr/share/doc/YafaRay/AUTHORS.md
/usr/share/doc/YafaRay/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/YafaRay/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/YafaRay
/usr/share/licenses/YafaRay/LICENSES
/usr/share/yafaray/tests
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01 - expected render result.png
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01.xml
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01_tex.exr
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01_tex.hdr
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01_tex.jpg
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01_tex.png
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01_tex.tga
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01_tex.tif
/usr/bin/yafaray-xml
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc/967b21c0f4f4940f6304e1df9859c5f0cfbba2
/usr/share/doc/YafaRay
/usr/share/doc/YafaRay/AUTHORS.md
/usr/share/doc/YafaRay/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/YafaRay/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/YafaRay
/usr/share/licenses/YafaRay/LICENSES
/usr/share/yafaray/tests
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01 - expected render result.png
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01.xml
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01_tex.exr
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01_tex.hdr
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01_tex.jpg
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01_tex.png
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01_tex.tga
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01_tex.tif
/usr/bin/yafaray-xml
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/b1c7407f2e395132a1ed26bb43c6d9a65e44d2
/usr/share/doc/YafaRay
/usr/share/doc/YafaRay/AUTHORS.md
/usr/share/doc/YafaRay/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/YafaRay/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/YafaRay
/usr/share/licenses/YafaRay/LICENSES
/usr/share/yafaray/tests
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01 - expected render result.png
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01.xml
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01_tex.exr
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01_tex.hdr
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01_tex.jpg
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01_tex.png
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01_tex.tga
/usr/share/yafaray/tests/test01/test01_tex.tif

References

[YafaRay website](https://www.yafaray.org/ https://www.yafaray.org/)

Summary

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