How To Install libvdpau-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvdpau-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libvdpau-devel.x86_64 is Development files for libvdpau

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvdpau-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is libvdpau-devel.x86_64

The libvdpau-devel package contains libraries and header files for developing applications that use libvdpau.

We can use yum to install libvdpau-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libvdpau-devel.x86_64.

Install libvdpau-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libvdpau-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libvdpau-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall libvdpau-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libvdpau-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libvdpau-devel.x86_64

libvdpau-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/vdpau
/usr/include/vdpau/vdpau.h
/usr/include/vdpau/vdpau_x11.h
/usr/lib64/libvdpau.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/vdpau.pc

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvdpau-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.