How To Install libsquish on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsquish on CentOS 8. libsquish is Open source DXT compression library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsquish on CentOS 8.

What is libsquish

The libSquish library compresses images with the DXT standard (also known as S3TC). This standard is mainly used by OpenGL and DirectX for the lossy compression of RGBA textures.

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

Install libsquish on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install libsquish using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libsquish

Install libsquish on CentOS 8 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 libsquish using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libsquish

How To Uninstall libsquish on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove libsquish

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsquish on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.