How To Install nvidia-texture-tools on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-texture-tools on CentOS 7.
What is nvidia-texture-tools
The NVIDIA Texture Tools is a collection of image processing and texture manipulation tools, designed to be integrated in game tools and asset conditioning pipelines. The primary features of the library are mipmap and normal map generation, format conversion and DXT compression. DXT compression is based on Simon Brown’s squish library. The library also contains an alternative GPU-accelerated compressor that uses CUDA and is one order of magnitude faster.
We can use yum or dnf to install nvidia-texture-tools on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nvidia-texture-tools.
Install nvidia-texture-tools on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install nvidia-texture-tools using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nvidia-texture-tools
Install nvidia-texture-tools 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 nvidia-texture-tools using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nvidia-texture-tools
How To Uninstall nvidia-texture-tools on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the nvidia-texture-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nvidia-texture-tools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-texture-tools on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
