How To Install vulkan-loader-devel on CentOS 8

vulkan-loader-devel is Development files for vulkan-loader Development files for vulkan-loader

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vulkan-loader-devel on CentOS 8.

What is vulkan-loader-devel

The vulkan-loader-devel package contains libraries and header files for developing applications that use vulkan-loader. vulkan-loader-devel 1.2.162.0 1.el8 x86_64 9.7 k vulkan-loader-1.2.162.0-1.el8.src.rpm appstream Development files for vulkan-loader https ASL 2.0 The vulkan-loader-devel package contains libraries and header files for developing applications that use vulkan-loader.

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

Install vulkan-loader-devel 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-loader-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vulkan-loader-devel

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

sudo yum -y install vulkan-loader-devel

How To Uninstall vulkan-loader-devel on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove vulkan-loader-devel

vulkan-loader-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/libvulkan.so
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/vulkan.pc
/usr/lib64/libvulkan.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/vulkan.pc

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install vulkan-loader-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.