How To Install vulkan-tools on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vulkan-tools on CentOS 8.
What is vulkan-tools
Vulkan tools
We can use yum or dnf to install vulkan-tools on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vulkan-tools.
Install vulkan-tools 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-tools using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install vulkan-tools
Install vulkan-tools 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-tools using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install vulkan-tools
How To Uninstall vulkan-tools on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the vulkan-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove vulkan-tools
vulkan-tools Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/vkcube
/usr/bin/vkcubepp
/usr/bin/vulkaninfo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/e3e6d5a73ce02370a3a3fab456ed470c45fe0f
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb/6ed4dc20f5b74f9c0e9e57249349df4e9bf8ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/27f7efdfcff25992127d7002393262efd92d24
/usr/share/doc/vulkan-tools
/usr/share/doc/vulkan-tools/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/vulkan-tools/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/vulkan-tools
/usr/share/licenses/vulkan-tools/LICENSE.txt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vulkan-tools on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.