How To Install virglrenderer-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install virglrenderer-devel on Rocky Linux 8. virglrenderer-devel is Virgil3D renderer development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install virglrenderer-devel on Rocky Linux 8.

What is virglrenderer-devel

Virgil3D renderer development files, used by qemu to build against.

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

Install virglrenderer-devel 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 virglrenderer-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install virglrenderer-devel

Install virglrenderer-devel 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 virglrenderer-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install virglrenderer-devel

How To Uninstall virglrenderer-devel on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the virglrenderer-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove virglrenderer-devel

virglrenderer-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/virgl
/usr/include/virgl/virglrenderer.h
/usr/lib64/libvirglrenderer.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/virglrenderer.pc

References

Summary

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