How To Install glew on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install glew in Fedora 36. glew is The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install glew on Fedora 36.

What is `glew`

The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library (GLEW) is a cross-platform C/C++ extension loading library. GLEW provides efficient run-time mechanisms for determining which OpenGL extensions are supported on the target platform. OpenGL core and extension functionality is exposed in a single header file. GLEW is available for a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Irix, and Solaris. This package contains the demo GLEW utilities. The libraries themselves are in libGLEW.

We can use yum or dnf to install glew on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install glew.

Install glew on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install glew using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install glew

Install glew on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install glew using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install glew

How To Uninstall glew on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove glew

glew Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/glewinfo
/usr/bin/visualinfo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/89
/usr/lib/.build-id/89/214899e2af84eb1cfc6a006deef2f8215f6f89
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa/bd1448a7635c19d3b685f401bbf70c945455a3
/usr/share/licenses/glew
/usr/share/licenses/glew/LICENSE.txt

References

glew website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install glew on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).