How To Install mesa-libglapi on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-libglapi on Rocky Linux 8. mesa-libglapi is Mesa shared glapi

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-libglapi on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `mesa-libglapi`

Mesa shared glapi.

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

Install mesa-libglapi 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 mesa-libglapi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mesa-libglapi

Install mesa-libglapi 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 mesa-libglapi using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mesa-libglapi

How To Uninstall mesa-libglapi on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the mesa-libglapi package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mesa-libglapi

mesa-libglapi Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf/35d9ad45277424a81be372bc4c2f7f78fe70c2
/usr/lib64/libglapi.so.0
/usr/lib64/libglapi.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/16f17173a59034e5bdd2284df28e6cc4c68ec0
/usr/lib/libglapi.so.0
/usr/lib/libglapi.so.0.0.0

References

mesa-libglapi website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-libglapi on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.