How To Install gtengine on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install gtengine on Rocky Linux 8. gtengine is Library for computations in mathematics, graphics, image analysis, and physics

Introduction

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

What is gtengine

A library of source code for computing in the fields of mathematics, graphics, image analysis, and physics. The engine is written in C++ 11 and, as such, has portable access to standard constructs for multithreading programming on cores. The engine also supports high-performance computing using general purpose GPU programming (GPGPU). SIMD code is also available using Intel Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE). GTEngine requires OpenGL 4.5.0 (or later).

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

Install gtengine 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 gtengine using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gtengine

Install gtengine 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 gtengine using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gtengine

How To Uninstall gtengine on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove gtengine

gtengine Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/89a9fa44dd4f3b3e0323e7b882e659ca9f39f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c/b9c5d258fc1573f8c12db93c5e776c377f4d9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/81280a71670e313169030b854dabbe050cae6e
/usr/lib64/libgtapplications.so.5
/usr/lib64/libgtapplications.so.5.0
/usr/lib64/libgtgraphics.so.5
/usr/lib64/libgtgraphics.so.5.0
/usr/lib64/libgtmathematicsgpu.so.5
/usr/lib64/libgtmathematicsgpu.so.5.0
/usr/share/licenses/gtengine
/usr/share/licenses/gtengine/License

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Summary

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