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

Introduction

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

What is vulkan-devel.x86_64

Development headers for Vulkan applications.

We can use yum to install vulkan-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 vulkan-devel.x86_64.

Install vulkan-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 vulkan-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vulkan-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove vulkan-devel.x86_64

vulkan-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/vulkan
/usr/include/vulkan/vk_icd.h
/usr/include/vulkan/vk_layer.h
/usr/include/vulkan/vk_layer_dispatch_table.h
/usr/include/vulkan/vk_platform.h
/usr/include/vulkan/vk_sdk_platform.h
/usr/include/vulkan/vulkan.h
/usr/include/vulkan/vulkan.hpp
/usr/lib64/libvulkan.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/vulkan.pc

References

• vulkan-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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