How To Install libvdpau.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvdpau.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libvdpau.x86_64 is Wrapper library for the Video Decode and Presentation API

Introduction

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

What is `libvdpau.x86_64`

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.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.x86_64.

Install libvdpau.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.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libvdpau.x86_64

How To Uninstall libvdpau.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libvdpau.x86_64

libvdpau.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/vdpau_wrapper.cfg
/usr/lib64/libvdpau.so.1
/usr/lib64/libvdpau.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib64/vdpau
/usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_trace.so
/usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_trace.so.1
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

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