How To Install glfw on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install glfw on Rocky Linux 8. glfw is A cross-platform multimedia library

Introduction

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

What is glfw

GLFW is a free, Open Source, multi-platform library for OpenGL application development that provides a powerful API for handling operating system specific tasks such as opening an OpenGL window, reading keyboard, mouse, joystick and time input, creating threads, and more.

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

Install glfw 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 glfw using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install glfw

Install glfw 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 glfw using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install glfw

How To Uninstall glfw on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove glfw

glfw Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/483a977459d97f5c7575045c48bd4b05d53e14
/usr/lib64/libglfw.so.3
/usr/lib64/libglfw.so.3.3
/usr/share/doc/glfw
/usr/share/doc/glfw/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/glfw
/usr/share/licenses/glfw/LICENSE.md

References

Summary

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