How to Install and Uninstall VirtualGL.i686 Package on Fedora 36

Last updated: November 25,2024

1. Install "VirtualGL.i686" package

This tutorial shows how to install VirtualGL.i686 on Fedora 36


    
        
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                sudo dnf update
            
                    
    
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                sudo dnf install
            
                        
                VirtualGL.i686
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "VirtualGL.i686" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall VirtualGL.i686 on Fedora 36:


    
        
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                sudo dnf remove
            
                        
                VirtualGL.i686
            
                    
    
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                sudo dnf autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the VirtualGL.i686 package on Fedora 36

Last metadata expiration check: 3:48:28 ago on Thu Sep 8 02:05:26 2022.
Available Packages
Name : VirtualGL
Version : 2.6.5
Release : 3.fc36
Architecture : i686
Size : 804 k
Source : VirtualGL-2.6.5-3.fc36.src.rpm
Repository : fedora
Summary : A toolkit for displaying OpenGL applications to thin clients
URL : http://www.virtualgl.org/
License : wxWindows
Description : VirtualGL is a toolkit that allows most Unix/Linux OpenGL applications to be
: remotely displayed with hardware 3D acceleration to thin clients, regardless
: of whether the clients have 3D capabilities, and regardless of the size of the
: 3D data being rendered or the speed of the network.
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: Using the vglrun script, the VirtualGL "faker" is loaded into an OpenGL
: application at run time. The faker then intercepts a handful of GLX calls,
: which it reroutes to the server's X display (the "3D X Server", which
: presumably has a 3D accelerator attached.) The GLX commands are also
: dynamically modified such that all rendering is redirected into a Pbuffer
: instead of a window. As each frame is rendered by the application, the faker
: reads back the pixels from the 3D accelerator and sends them to the
: "2D X Server" for compositing into the appropriate X Window.
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: VirtualGL can be used to give hardware-accelerated 3D capabilities to VNC or
: other X proxies that either lack OpenGL support or provide it through software
: rendering. In a LAN environment, VGL can also be used with its built-in
: high-performance image transport, which sends the rendered 3D images to a
: remote client (vglclient) for compositing on a remote X server. VirtualGL
: also supports image transport plugins, allowing the rendered 3D images to be
: sent or captured using other mechanisms.
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: VirtualGL is based upon ideas presented in various academic papers on
: this topic, including "A Generic Solution for Hardware-Accelerated Remote
: Visualization" (Stegmaier, Magallon, Ertl 2002) and "A Framework for
: Interactive Hardware Accelerated Remote 3D-Visualization" (Engel, Sommer,
: Ertl 2000.)