How To Install osgvolume 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 OpenSceneGraph

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install OpenSceneGraph

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

What is osgvolume 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 osgvolume 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 osgvolume 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 osgvolume using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install OpenSceneGraph

Install osgvolume on CentOS 8 using yum

Because osgvolume 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 osgvolume package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install OpenSceneGraph

How to upgrade (update) a single package osgvolume using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update OpenSceneGraph

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade OpenSceneGraph

How to Upgrade osgvolume 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 OpenSceneGraph

How To remove osgvolume from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the osgvolume package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove OpenSceneGraph

Extra info and code examples

A portable, high level graphics toolkit for the development of high performance graphics applications such as flight simulators, games, virtual reality or scientific visualization. Providing an object orientated framework on top of OpenGL, it frees the developer from implementing and optimizing low level graphics calls, and provide many additional utilities for rapid development of graphics applications. This package contains utilities and examples (binaries).

Conclusion

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

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