How To Install vulkan-validation-layers on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vulkan-validation-layers on Rocky Linux 8.

What is vulkan-validation-layers

Vulkan validation layers

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

Install vulkan-validation-layers 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 vulkan-validation-layers using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vulkan-validation-layers

Install vulkan-validation-layers 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 vulkan-validation-layers using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vulkan-validation-layers

How To Uninstall vulkan-validation-layers on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the vulkan-validation-layers package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove vulkan-validation-layers

vulkan-validation-layers Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f/db0a506592b2696bc6fba1c86bb47de82f493d
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce/de84321cdcacdb0d53981c2b550c80d55200a9
/usr/lib64/libVkLayer_khronos_validation.so
/usr/lib64/libVkLayer_utils.so
/usr/share/doc/vulkan-validation-layers
/usr/share/doc/vulkan-validation-layers/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/vulkan-validation-layers/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/vulkan-validation-layers
/usr/share/licenses/vulkan-validation-layers/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/vulkan/explicit_layer.d/VkLayer_khronos_validation.json

References

• vulkan-validation-layers website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install vulkan-validation-layers on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.