How To Install ftgl on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ftgl on Rocky Linux 8.
What is ftgl
FTGL is a free open source library to enable developers to use arbitrary fonts in their OpenGL (www.opengl.org) applications. Unlike other OpenGL font libraries FTGL uses standard font file formats so doesn’t need a preprocessing step to convert the high quality font data into a lesser quality, proprietary format. FTGL uses the Freetype (www.freetype.org) font library to open and ‘decode’ the fonts. It then takes that output and stores it in a format most efficient for OpenGL rendering.
We can use yum or dnf to install ftgl on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ftgl.
Install ftgl 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 ftgl using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ftgl
Install ftgl 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 ftgl using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ftgl
How To Uninstall ftgl on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the ftgl package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ftgl
ftgl Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f/17f4fe145ee018bb79825aa9f8ebe46bcb7b2f
/usr/lib64/libftgl.so.2
/usr/lib64/libftgl.so.2.1.3
/usr/share/doc/ftgl
/usr/share/doc/ftgl/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ftgl/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/ftgl/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ftgl/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/ftgl/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ftgl/README
/usr/share/doc/ftgl/TODO
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ftgl on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.