How To Install freeglut on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeglut
on CentOS 7.
What is freeglut
freeglut is a completely open source alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) library with an OSI approved free software license. GLUT was originally written by Mark Kilgard to support the sample programs in the second edition OpenGL ‘RedBook’. Since then, GLUT has been used in a wide variety of practical applications because it is simple, universally available and highly portable. freeglut allows the user to create and manage windows containing OpenGL contexts on a wide range of platforms and also read the mouse, keyboard and joystick functions. freeglut is a completely open source alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) library with an OSI approved free software license. GLUT was originally written by Mark Kilgard to support the sample programs in the second edition OpenGL ‘RedBook’. Since then, GLUT has been used in a wide variety of practical applications because it is simple, universally available and highly portable. freeglut allows the user to create and manage windows containing OpenGL contexts on a wide range of platforms and also read the mouse, keyboard and joystick functions.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install freeglut
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freeglut.
Install freeglut on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install freeglut
using yum
by running the following command:
Install freeglut 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.
After updating yum database, We can install freeglut
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall freeglut on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the freeglut
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeglut
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.