How To Install Coin3 on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install Coin3 on CentOS 7. Coin3 is High-level 3D visualization library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install Coin3 on CentOS 7.

What is Coin3

Coin is a 3D graphics library with an Application Programming Interface based on the Open Inventor 2.1 API.

We can use yum or dnf to install Coin3 on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install Coin3.

Install Coin3 on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install Coin3 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install Coin3

Install Coin3 on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install Coin3 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install Coin3

How To Uninstall Coin3 on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the Coin3 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove Coin3

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install Coin3 on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.