How To Install mesa-vdpau-drivers on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-vdpau-drivers on CentOS 7. mesa-vdpau-drivers is Mesa-based DRI drivers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-vdpau-drivers on CentOS 7.

What is mesa-vdpau-drivers

Mesa-based VDPAU drivers. Mesa-based VDPAU drivers.

We can use yum or dnf to install mesa-vdpau-drivers on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mesa-vdpau-drivers.

Install mesa-vdpau-drivers on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install mesa-vdpau-drivers using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mesa-vdpau-drivers

Install mesa-vdpau-drivers on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install mesa-vdpau-drivers using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mesa-vdpau-drivers

How To Uninstall mesa-vdpau-drivers on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the mesa-vdpau-drivers package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mesa-vdpau-drivers

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-vdpau-drivers on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.