How To Install renderdoc on Fedora 34

renderdoc is A stand-alone graphics debugging tool

Introduction

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

What is renderdoc

A free MIT licensed stand-alone graphics debugger that allows quick and easy single-frame capture and detailed introspection of any application using Vulkan, OpenGL.

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

Install renderdoc 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 renderdoc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install renderdoc

Install renderdoc 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 renderdoc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install renderdoc

How To Uninstall renderdoc on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove renderdoc

renderdoc Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/qrenderdoc
/usr/bin/renderdoccmd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/05
/usr/lib/.build-id/05/9db9bcdd6586461013e52a4fd87d4aab61a820
/usr/lib/.build-id/51
/usr/lib/.build-id/51/ec1b3806822df6a76802755a6cb00cfee63e2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee/b47dda397bd2164c4211d9d19cbc61881ba91c
/usr/lib64/renderdoc/librenderdoc.so
/usr/share/applications/renderdoc.desktop
/usr/share/doc/renderdoc
/usr/share/doc/renderdoc/LICENSE.md
/usr/share/doc/renderdoc/README
/usr/share/doc/renderdoc/magic
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/mimetypes/application-x-renderdoc-capture.svg
/usr/share/licenses/renderdoc
/usr/share/licenses/renderdoc/LICENSE.md
/usr/share/mime/packages/renderdoc-capture.xml
/usr/share/pixmaps/renderdoc-icon-16x16.xpm
/usr/share/pixmaps/renderdoc-icon-32x32.xpm
/usr/share/thumbnailers/renderdoc.thumbnailer
/usr/share/vulkan/implicit_layer.d/renderdoc_capture.json

References

Summary

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