Information about the package, freeglut, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The freeglut package is designed for, A freely licensed alternative to the GLUT library.
Package Name:
freeglut
Summary:
A freely licensed alternative to the GLUT library
Description:
freeglut is a completely open source alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) library with an OSI approved free software license. GLUT was originally written by Mark Kilgard to support the sample programs in the second edition OpenGL 'RedBook'. Since then, GLUT has been used in a wide variety of practical applications because it is simple, universally available and highly portable. freeglut allows the user to create and manage windows containing OpenGL contexts on a wide range of platforms and also read the mouse, keyboard and joystick functions.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.6.0
Release:
1.el6
Size:
171 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT
Control the freeglut package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install freeglut
This command will install freeglut on the server.
yum remove freeglut
This command will un-install freeglut on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove freeglut, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove freeglut
This command will un-install freeglut on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove freeglut when using the -y flag.
yum update freeglut
This command will update freeglut to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove freeglut, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update freeglut
This command will update freeglut to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove freeglut when using the -y flag.
yum info freeglut
This command will show you core information about the freeglut package.
yum deplist freeglut
This command will show you the dependencies for freeglut. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update freeglut
This command will check if there is an update waiting on freeglut. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.