How To Install glglobe on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install glglobe in Fedora 36. glglobe is OpenGl Globe - Earth simulation for linux

Introduction

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

What is glglobe

GLGlobe is an OpenGL - globe simulation for Linux. It was inspired by XGlobe or XEarth and can use the marker-files of these programs. The simulation includes day light and night time rendering, and the globe can be rotated and scaled interactively, or automatically rotated based on the current time of day

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

Install glglobe 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 glglobe using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install glglobe

Install glglobe 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 glglobe using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install glglobe

How To Uninstall glglobe on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove glglobe

glglobe Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/glglobe
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/ed0b295b8515985605903102a29f481879f56b
/usr/share/applications/glglobe.desktop
/usr/share/doc/glglobe
/usr/share/doc/glglobe/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/glglobe/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/glglobe/README
/usr/share/doc/glglobe/TODO
/usr/share/glglobe
/usr/share/glglobe/depths_1440.jpg
/usr/share/glglobe/earth-markers-schaumann
/usr/share/glglobe/xglobe-markers
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/glglobe.16x16.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/glglobe.24x24.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/glglobe.48x48.png

References

Summary

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