How To Install libvdpau.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvdpau.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libvdpau.i686 is Wrapper library for the Video Decode and Presentation API

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvdpau.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libvdpau.i686`

VDPAU is the Video Decode and Presentation API for UNIX. It provides an interface to video decode acceleration and presentation hardware present in modern GPUs.

We can use yum to install libvdpau.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libvdpau.i686.

Install libvdpau.i686 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.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libvdpau.i686

How To Uninstall libvdpau.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libvdpau.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libvdpau.i686

libvdpau.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/vdpau_wrapper.cfg
/usr/lib/libvdpau.so.1
/usr/lib/libvdpau.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/vdpau
/usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_trace.so
/usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_trace.so.1
/usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_trace.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libvdpau-1.1.1
/usr/share/doc/libvdpau-1.1.1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libvdpau-1.1.1/COPYING

References

libvdpau.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvdpau.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.