How To Install libva on Fedora 34

libva is Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libva on Fedora 34.

What is libva

Libva is a library providing the VA API video acceleration API. libva 2.11.0 1.fc34 x86_64 102 k libva-2.11.0-1.fc34.src.rpm fedora Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux https MIT Libva is a library providing the VA API video acceleration API.

We can use yum or dnf to install libva on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libva.

Install libva on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install libva

Install libva on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install libva using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libva

How To Uninstall libva on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the libva package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libva

libva Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/libva.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/2c0353e4be9bc2227dc2c7ec278b928a3c4f9c
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/e7958c92d71c80175f338b0338be6b02a31a50
/usr/lib/.build-id/95
/usr/lib/.build-id/95/9fbcb7a59b1aaf75175f50089dc99d74693f4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/25f945580cc32e4881551dbd50c0027b0e8479
/usr/lib/.build-id/be
/usr/lib/.build-id/be/0dc4aef6e70288fa77289a796715c089bddba4
/usr/lib/libva-drm.so.2
/usr/lib/libva-drm.so.2.1100.0
/usr/lib/libva-glx.so.2
/usr/lib/libva-glx.so.2.1100.0
/usr/lib/libva-wayland.so.2
/usr/lib/libva-wayland.so.2.1100.0
/usr/lib/libva-x11.so.2
/usr/lib/libva-x11.so.2.1100.0
/usr/lib/libva.so.2
/usr/lib/libva.so.2.1100.0
/usr/share/doc/libva
/usr/share/doc/libva/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/libva
/usr/share/licenses/libva/COPYING
/etc/libva.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f/6c98c6816355066be6612604cdb19479914d01
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/14becf78383983f0ce430371944fcf93e7d7b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab/c55b4be3fe772bf0c96d99442f3d4c6e6219f2
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf/d94faa267bb49ec3589ed4f5978f661419f4d6
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/7dd41a58e0537a59a41bd28dce56ebc29dc4cf
/usr/lib64/libva-drm.so.2
/usr/lib64/libva-drm.so.2.1100.0
/usr/lib64/libva-glx.so.2
/usr/lib64/libva-glx.so.2.1100.0
/usr/lib64/libva-wayland.so.2
/usr/lib64/libva-wayland.so.2.1100.0
/usr/lib64/libva-x11.so.2
/usr/lib64/libva-x11.so.2.1100.0
/usr/lib64/libva.so.2
/usr/lib64/libva.so.2.1100.0
/usr/share/doc/libva
/usr/share/doc/libva/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/libva
/usr/share/licenses/libva/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libva on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.