How To Install libmfx on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmfx on Rocky Linux 8. libmfx is Intel hardware video acceleration dispatcher library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmfx on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libmfx

The dispatcher is a layer that lies between applications and Intel Media SDK implementations. Upon initialization, the dispatcher locates the appropriate platform-specific SDK implementation. If there is none, it will select the software SDK implementation. The dispatcher will redirect subsequent function calls to the same functions in the selected SDK implementation.

We can use yum or dnf to install libmfx on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libmfx.

Install libmfx 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 libmfx using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libmfx

Install libmfx 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 libmfx using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libmfx

How To Uninstall libmfx on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libmfx

libmfx Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/32
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/1da89c717224cdf3727143379fb5436a236614
/usr/lib64/libmfx.so.1
/usr/lib64/libmfx.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/licenses/libmfx
/usr/share/licenses/libmfx/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmfx on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.