How To Install egl-wayland on CentOS 8

egl-wayland is Wayland EGL External Platform library Wayland EGL External Platform library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install egl-wayland on CentOS 8.

What is egl-wayland

Wayland EGL External Platform library egl-wayland 1.1.5 3.el8 x86_64 34 k egl-wayland-1.1.5-3.el8.src.rpm appstream Wayland EGL External Platform library https MIT Wayland EGL External Platform library

We can use yum or dnf to install egl-wayland on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install egl-wayland.

Install egl-wayland on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install egl-wayland using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install egl-wayland

Install egl-wayland on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install egl-wayland using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install egl-wayland

How To Uninstall egl-wayland on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the egl-wayland package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove egl-wayland

egl-wayland Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/b74cb21cb16e2751589327eda1aeb44033c773
/usr/lib64/libnvidia-egl-wayland.so.1
/usr/lib64/libnvidia-egl-wayland.so.1.1.5
/usr/share/doc/egl-wayland
/usr/share/doc/egl-wayland/README.md
/usr/share/egl/egl_external_platform.d/10_nvidia_wayland.json
/usr/share/licenses/egl-wayland
/usr/share/licenses/egl-wayland/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa/e91fe1eba1e81db475ea957ce86227b463e928
/usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland.so.1
/usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland.so.1.1.5
/usr/share/doc/egl-wayland
/usr/share/doc/egl-wayland/README.md
/usr/share/egl/egl_external_platform.d/10_nvidia_wayland.json
/usr/share/licenses/egl-wayland
/usr/share/licenses/egl-wayland/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install egl-wayland on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.