How To Install egl-wayland on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install egl-wayland on Rocky Linux 8.
What is egl-wayland
Wayland EGL External Platform library
We can use yum or dnf to install egl-wayland on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install egl-wayland.
Install egl-wayland on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install egl-wayland using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install egl-wayland
Install egl-wayland on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install egl-wayland using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install egl-wayland
How To Uninstall egl-wayland on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the egl-wayland package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove egl-wayland
egl-wayland Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/57
/usr/lib/.build-id/57/653ffa43b36361712fffb00bcfdd1e764f5169
/usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland.so.1
/usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland.so.1.1.5
/usr/share/doc/egl-wayland
/usr/share/doc/egl-wayland/README.md
/usr/share/egl/egl_external_platform.d/10_nvidia_wayland.json
/usr/share/licenses/egl-wayland
/usr/share/licenses/egl-wayland/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2/4edc56ebc99e029f1b064cf7585f822daf733e
/usr/lib64/libnvidia-egl-wayland.so.1
/usr/lib64/libnvidia-egl-wayland.so.1.1.5
/usr/share/doc/egl-wayland
/usr/share/doc/egl-wayland/README.md
/usr/share/egl/egl_external_platform.d/10_nvidia_wayland.json
/usr/share/licenses/egl-wayland
/usr/share/licenses/egl-wayland/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install egl-wayland on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.