How To Install vulkan-headers on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vulkan-headers on CentOS 8.
What is vulkan-headers
Vulkan Header files and API registry
We can use yum or dnf to install vulkan-headers on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vulkan-headers.
Install vulkan-headers 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 vulkan-headers using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install vulkan-headers
Install vulkan-headers 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 vulkan-headers using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install vulkan-headers
How To Uninstall vulkan-headers on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the vulkan-headers package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove vulkan-headers
vulkan-headers Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/include/vulkan
/usr/include/vulkan/vk_icd.h
/usr/include/vulkan/vk_layer.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/include/vulkan/vulkan_android.h
/usr/include/vulkan/vulkan_beta.h
/usr/include/vulkan/vulkan_core.h
/usr/include/vulkan/vulkan_directfb.h
/usr/include/vulkan/vulkan_fuchsia.h
/usr/include/vulkan/vulkan_ggp.h
/usr/include/vulkan/vulkan_ios.h
/usr/include/vulkan/vulkan_macos.h
/usr/include/vulkan/vulkan_metal.h
/usr/include/vulkan/vulkan_vi.h
/usr/include/vulkan/vulkan_wayland.h
/usr/include/vulkan/vulkan_win32.h
/usr/include/vulkan/vulkan_xcb.h
/usr/include/vulkan/vulkan_xlib.h
/usr/include/vulkan/vulkan_xlib_xrandr.h
/usr/share/doc/vulkan-headers
/usr/share/doc/vulkan-headers/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/vulkan-headers
/usr/share/licenses/vulkan-headers/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/vulkan
/usr/share/vulkan/registry
/usr/share/vulkan/registry/cgenerator.py
/usr/share/vulkan/registry/conventions.py
/usr/share/vulkan/registry/generator.py
/usr/share/vulkan/registry/genvk.py
/usr/share/vulkan/registry/reg.py
/usr/share/vulkan/registry/spec_tools
/usr/share/vulkan/registry/spec_tools/util.py
/usr/share/vulkan/registry/validusage.json
/usr/share/vulkan/registry/vk.xml
/usr/share/vulkan/registry/vkconventions.py
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vulkan-headers on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.