How To Install vulkan.i686 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vulkan.i686
on Amazon Linux 2.
What is vulkan.i686
Vulkan is a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and consoles to mobile phones and embedded platforms. This package contains the reference ICD loader and validation layers for Vulkan.
We can use yum
to install vulkan.i686
on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vulkan.i686.
Install vulkan.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 vulkan.i686
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install vulkan.i686
How To Uninstall vulkan.i686 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the vulkan.i686
package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove vulkan.i686
vulkan.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/bin/vulkaninfo
/usr/lib/libVkLayer_core_validation.so
/usr/lib/libVkLayer_object_tracker.so
/usr/lib/libVkLayer_parameter_validation.so
/usr/lib/libVkLayer_threading.so
/usr/lib/libVkLayer_unique_objects.so
/usr/lib/libVkLayer_utils.so
/usr/lib/libvulkan.so.1
/usr/lib/libvulkan.so.1.0.61
/usr/share/doc/vulkan-1.0.61.1
/usr/share/doc/vulkan-1.0.61.1/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/vulkan-1.0.61.1/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/vulkan-1.0.61.1
/usr/share/licenses/vulkan-1.0.61.1/COPYRIGHT.txt
/usr/share/licenses/vulkan-1.0.61.1/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/vulkan/explicit_layer.d/VkLayer_core_validation.json
/usr/share/vulkan/explicit_layer.d/VkLayer_object_tracker.json
/usr/share/vulkan/explicit_layer.d/VkLayer_parameter_validation.json
/usr/share/vulkan/explicit_layer.d/VkLayer_standard_validation.json
/usr/share/vulkan/explicit_layer.d/VkLayer_threading.json
/usr/share/vulkan/explicit_layer.d/VkLayer_unique_objects.json
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vulkan.i686
on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.