How To Install libva-vdpau-driver on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libva-vdpau-driver on Rocky Linux 8. libva-vdpau-driver is HW video decode support for VDPAU platforms

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libva-vdpau-driver on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `libva-vdpau-driver`

VDPAU Backend for Video Acceleration (VA) API.

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

Install libva-vdpau-driver 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 libva-vdpau-driver using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libva-vdpau-driver

Install libva-vdpau-driver 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 libva-vdpau-driver using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libva-vdpau-driver

How To Uninstall libva-vdpau-driver on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the libva-vdpau-driver package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libva-vdpau-driver

libva-vdpau-driver Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/32
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/6508cf5b7de6807799981bf510417ce8b855ef
/usr/lib64/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
/usr/lib64/dri/s3g_drv_video.so
/usr/lib64/dri/vdpau_drv_video.so
/usr/share/doc/libva-vdpau-driver
/usr/share/doc/libva-vdpau-driver/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libva-vdpau-driver/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libva-vdpau-driver/README
/usr/share/licenses/libva-vdpau-driver
/usr/share/licenses/libva-vdpau-driver/COPYING

References

libva-vdpau-driver website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libva-vdpau-driver on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.