How To Install glm-devel on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install glm-devel on CentOS 7.

What is glm-devel

GLM is a C++ library for doing mathematics operations required in many OpenGL based applications. Its interface has been designed to resemble the built-in matrix and vector types of the OpenGL shading language. glm-devel is only required for building software that uses the GLM library. Because GLM currently is a header-only library, there is no matching run time package.

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

Install glm-devel on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install glm-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install glm-devel

Install glm-devel 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 glm-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install glm-devel

How To Uninstall glm-devel on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the glm-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove glm-devel

References

• glm-devel website

Summary

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