How To Install wxGTK3-gl on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wxGTK3-gl on Rocky Linux 8.

What is wxGTK3-gl

OpenGL (a 3D graphics API) add-on for the wxWidgets library. wxWidgets is the GTK port of the C++ cross-platform wxWidgets GUI library, offering classes for all common GUI controls as well as a comprehensive set of helper classes for most common application tasks, ranging from networking to HTML display and image manipulation.

We can use yum or dnf to install wxGTK3-gl on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wxGTK3-gl.

Install wxGTK3-gl 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 wxGTK3-gl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wxGTK3-gl

Install wxGTK3-gl 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 wxGTK3-gl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wxGTK3-gl

How To Uninstall wxGTK3-gl on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the wxGTK3-gl package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove wxGTK3-gl

wxGTK3-gl Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e/ca498726f426d0f8509ccc4a76704c3c5a8c9e
/usr/lib64/libwx_gtk3u_gl-3.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_gtk3u_gl-3.0.so.0.4.0

References

• wxGTK3-gl website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wxGTK3-gl on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.