How To Install mesa-vulkan-devel on AlmaLinux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-vulkan-devel on AlmaLinux 8.

What is mesa-vulkan-devel

Headers for development with the Vulkan API.

We can use yum or dnf to install mesa-vulkan-devel on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mesa-vulkan-devel.

Install mesa-vulkan-devel on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install mesa-vulkan-devel

Install mesa-vulkan-devel on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install mesa-vulkan-devel

How To Uninstall mesa-vulkan-devel on AlmaLinux 8

To uninstall only the mesa-vulkan-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mesa-vulkan-devel

References

• mesa-vulkan-devel website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-vulkan-devel on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.