How To Install irrlicht on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install irrlicht on Rocky Linux 8. irrlicht is A high performance realtime 3D engine

Introduction

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

What is irrlicht

The Irrlicht Engine is an open source high performance realtime 3D engine written and usable in C++ and also available for .NET languages. It is completely cross-platform, using D3D, OpenGL and its own software renderer, and has all of the state-of-the-art features which can be found in commercial 3d engines.

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

Install irrlicht 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 irrlicht using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install irrlicht

Install irrlicht 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 irrlicht using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install irrlicht

How To Uninstall irrlicht on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove irrlicht

irrlicht Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/7f20db1a540cd4506d425a8c674d0720125414
/usr/lib64/libIrrlicht.so.1
/usr/lib64/libIrrlicht.so.1.8.4
/usr/share/doc/irrlicht
/usr/share/doc/irrlicht/readme.txt

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Summary

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