How To Install vulkan-validation-layers on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vulkan-validation-layers on CentOS 8.
What is vulkan-validation-layers
Vulkan validation layers
We can use yum or dnf to install vulkan-validation-layers on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vulkan-validation-layers.
Install vulkan-validation-layers 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-validation-layers using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install vulkan-validation-layers
Install vulkan-validation-layers 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-validation-layers using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install vulkan-validation-layers
How To Uninstall vulkan-validation-layers on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the vulkan-validation-layers package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove vulkan-validation-layers
vulkan-validation-layers Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f/db0a506592b2696bc6fba1c86bb47de82f493d
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce/de84321cdcacdb0d53981c2b550c80d55200a9
/usr/lib64/libVkLayer_khronos_validation.so
/usr/lib64/libVkLayer_utils.so
/usr/share/doc/vulkan-validation-layers
/usr/share/doc/vulkan-validation-layers/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/vulkan-validation-layers/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/vulkan-validation-layers
/usr/share/licenses/vulkan-validation-layers/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/vulkan/explicit_layer.d/VkLayer_khronos_validation.json
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vulkan-validation-layers on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.