How To Install vdpauinfo on Fedora 34

vdpauinfo is Tool to query the capabilities of a VDPAU implementation

Introduction

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

What is vdpauinfo

Tool to query the capabilities of a VDPAU implementation.

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

Install vdpauinfo 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 vdpauinfo using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vdpauinfo

Install vdpauinfo 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 vdpauinfo using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vdpauinfo

How To Uninstall vdpauinfo on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove vdpauinfo

vdpauinfo Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/vdpauinfo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/ce0fd5f5f2f9f25b3a5838ddc1003bcfdde97e
/usr/share/licenses/vdpauinfo
/usr/share/licenses/vdpauinfo/COPYING

References

Summary

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