How To Install flam3-animate on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install flam3

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install flam3

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is flam3-animate and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install flam3-animate on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install flam3-animate on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install flam3-animate using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install flam3

Install flam3-animate on CentOS 8 using yum

Because flam3-animate is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install flam3-animate package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install flam3

How to upgrade (update) a single package flam3-animate using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like flam3-animate in this example you should use the following command:

yum update flam3

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade flam3

How to Upgrade flam3-animate on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update flam3

How To remove flam3-animate from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the flam3-animate package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove flam3

Extra info and code examples

According to the upstream website: Fractal Flames are algorithmically generated images and animations. The software was originally written in 1992 and released as open source, aka free software. Since then it has developed a lot. It has been incorporated into many graphics programs and ported to most operating systems. The shape of each image is specified by a long string of numbers - a genetic code of sorts. You can create your own flames with the Apophysis interactive designer (for windows), Qosmic (for Linux), or Oxidizer (for Mac OS X), or Apophysis-J (cross-platform in Java). Or you can use the Electric Sheep distributed screen saver to join the collective evolution of animated fractal flames.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install flam3-animate using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the flam3-animate from CentOS 8.

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