How To Install freeimage on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeimage on Rocky Linux 8. freeimage is Multi-format image decoder library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeimage on Rocky Linux 8.

What is freeimage

FreeImage is a library for developers who would like to support popular graphics image formats like PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF and others as needed by today’s multimedia applications.

We can use yum or dnf to install freeimage on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freeimage.

Install freeimage on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install freeimage

Install freeimage on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install freeimage

How To Uninstall freeimage on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove freeimage

freeimage Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/35
/usr/lib/.build-id/35/9f4cf038bf4148c50e893e5ae4684a7503f2f1
/usr/lib64/libfreeimage-3.17.0.so
/usr/lib64/libfreeimage.so.3
/usr/share/doc/freeimage
/usr/share/doc/freeimage/Whatsnew.txt
/usr/share/licenses/freeimage
/usr/share/licenses/freeimage/license-fi.txt
/usr/share/licenses/freeimage/license-gplv2.txt
/usr/share/licenses/freeimage/license-gplv3.txt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeimage on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.