How To Install mesa-dri-drivers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-dri-drivers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is mesa-dri-drivers.x86_64

Mesa-based DRI drivers.

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

Install mesa-dri-drivers.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 mesa-dri-drivers.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mesa-dri-drivers.x86_64

How To Uninstall mesa-dri-drivers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the mesa-dri-drivers.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove mesa-dri-drivers.x86_64

mesa-dri-drivers.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/dri/i915_dri.so
/usr/lib64/dri/i965_dri.so
/usr/lib64/dri/kms_swrast_dri.so
/usr/lib64/dri/nouveau_dri.so
/usr/lib64/dri/r300_dri.so
/usr/lib64/dri/r600_dri.so
/usr/lib64/dri/radeonsi_dri.so
/usr/lib64/dri/swrast_dri.so
/usr/lib64/dri/virtio_gpu_dri.so
/usr/lib64/dri/vmwgfx_dri.so
/usr/share/drirc.d
/usr/share/drirc.d/00-mesa-defaults.conf

References

• mesa-dri-drivers.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-dri-drivers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.