How To Install vkBasalt on Fedora 34

vkBasalt is Vulkan post processing layer Vulkan post processing layer

Introduction

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

What is `vkBasalt`

vkBasalt is a Vulkan post processing layer to enhance the visual graphics of games. Currently, the build in effects are - Contrast Adaptive Sharpening - Denoised Luma Sharpening - Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing - Enhanced Subpixel Morphological Anti-Aliasing - 3D color LookUp Table It is also possible to use Reshade Fx shaders. vkBasalt 0.3.2.4 2.fc34 x86_64 438 k vkBasalt-0.3.2.4-2.fc34.src.rpm fedora Vulkan post processing layer https zlib and ASL 2.0 vkBasalt is a Vulkan post processing layer to enhance the visual graphics of games. Currently, the build in effects are - Contrast Adaptive Sharpening - Denoised Luma Sharpening - Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing - Enhanced Subpixel Morphological Anti-Aliasing - 3D color LookUp Table It is also possible to use Reshade Fx shaders.

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

Install vkBasalt 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 vkBasalt using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vkBasalt

Install vkBasalt 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 vkBasalt using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vkBasalt

How To Uninstall vkBasalt on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove vkBasalt

vkBasalt Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/vkBasalt.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/92
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/eef66bcc2663412410ab085b8d9b6ff1fe4d15
/usr/lib/vkbasalt
/usr/lib/vkbasalt/libvkbasalt.so
/usr/share/doc/vkBasalt
/usr/share/doc/vkBasalt/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/vkBasalt
/usr/share/licenses/vkBasalt/LICENSE
/usr/share/vulkan/implicit_layer.d/vkBasalt.json
/etc/vkBasalt.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/1ea9e66909d88d6cdae76182d7571972af4813
/usr/lib64/vkbasalt
/usr/lib64/vkbasalt/libvkbasalt.so
/usr/share/doc/vkBasalt
/usr/share/doc/vkBasalt/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/vkBasalt
/usr/share/licenses/vkBasalt/LICENSE
/usr/share/vulkan/implicit_layer.d/vkBasalt.json

References

[vkBasalt website](https://github.com/DadSchoorse/vkBasalt https://github.com/DadSchoorse/vkBasalt)

Summary

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