How To Install mesa-vdpau-drivers on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-vdpau-drivers on Rocky Linux 8. mesa-vdpau-drivers is Mesa-based VDPAU drivers

Introduction

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

What is mesa-vdpau-drivers

Mesa-based VDPAU drivers.

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

Install mesa-vdpau-drivers 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-vdpau-drivers using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mesa-vdpau-drivers

Install mesa-vdpau-drivers 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-vdpau-drivers using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mesa-vdpau-drivers

How To Uninstall mesa-vdpau-drivers on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove mesa-vdpau-drivers

mesa-vdpau-drivers Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/22ceaaf985ceacbfc2e5bf8abcbc61d2239cb1
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/22ceaaf985ceacbfc2e5bf8abcbc61d2239cb1.1
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/22ceaaf985ceacbfc2e5bf8abcbc61d2239cb1.2
/usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_nouveau.so.1
/usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_nouveau.so.1.0
/usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_nouveau.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_r600.so.1
/usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_r600.so.1.0
/usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_r600.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_radeonsi.so.1
/usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_radeonsi.so.1.0
/usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_radeonsi.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/de
/usr/lib/.build-id/de/8f8f640452808198d40634966f8821119c7061
/usr/lib/.build-id/de/8f8f640452808198d40634966f8821119c7061.1
/usr/lib/.build-id/de/8f8f640452808198d40634966f8821119c7061.2
/usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_nouveau.so.1
/usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_nouveau.so.1.0
/usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_nouveau.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_r600.so.1
/usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_r600.so.1.0
/usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_r600.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_radeonsi.so.1
/usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_radeonsi.so.1.0
/usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_radeonsi.so.1.0.0

References

Summary

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